Fiction Feature Filmmaking
Research and Practice in Screenwriting, Production, Distribution, Exhibition, and Beyond
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This book examines fiction feature filmmaking as a mode of creative practice research, offering an innovative framework Fictsearch for investigating the challenges of creating intersex-themed films in the United Kingdom. Through the author's embodied experience in film conception, screenwriting, direction, production, distribution, festivals, and exhibition it reveals the current standing of intersex subjects in commercial filmmaking and why British cinema has yet to embrace these narratives. Key concepts include the impact of filmmakers' lack of awareness and the conflation of intersex with LGBT themes on funding opportunities. The book critically reflects on societal taboos and the hesitancy of financiers to invest in intersex narratives, often relegating such films to indie productions. It highlights the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of intersex individuals in English-language feature films from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. This book is essential for scholars, filmmakers, and students interested in feature filmmaking, film sales and distribution, film studies, gender studies, and representation in media. It demonstrates how fiction filmmaking can serve as a rigorous method for generating new knowledge, particularly when addressing socially sensitive topics, and raises vital questions about creating more visible and nuanced portrayals of marginalized identities in mainstream cinema.
Dr Kamran Qureshi is an award-winning British film and television director, producer, and Senior Fellow of the UK’s Higher Education Academy. He teaches film and television at Southampton Solent University and researches Hollywood, British, Australian, Canadian, and Indian cinema, as well as gender and intersex representation. With accolades for directing, and producing, Dr Kamran is a co-founder of KQ Movies Ltd and Evergreen Media Europe Ltd. His Professional practice PhD in film, TV and Media explored intersex representation in feature films, blending theory with filmmaking practice. He mentors students and colleagues in research, teaching and media practice.
This book examines fiction feature filmmaking as a mode of creative practice research, offering an innovative framework Fictsearch for investigating the challenges of creating intersex-themed films in the United Kingdom. Through the author's embodied experience in film conception, screenwriting, direction, production, distribution, festivals, and exhibition it reveals the current standing of intersex subjects in commercial filmmaking and why British cinema has yet to embrace these narratives. Key concepts include the impact of filmmakers' lack of awareness and the conflation of intersex with LGBT themes on funding opportunities. The book critically reflects on societal taboos and the hesitancy of financiers to invest in intersex narratives, often relegating such films to indie productions. It highlights the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of intersex individuals in English-language feature films from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. This book is essential for scholars, filmmakers, and students interested in feature filmmaking, film sales and distribution, film studies, gender studies, and representation in media. It demonstrates how fiction filmmaking can serve as a rigorous method for generating new knowledge, particularly when addressing socially sensitive topics, and raises vital questions about creating more visible and nuanced portrayals of marginalized identities in mainstream cinema.
Blends creative and commercial fiction feature filmmaking with rigorous academic enquiry Provides an exclusive look behind the scenes of a globally relevant feature film on a so-called taboo subject Only Love Matters has received multiple awards and nominations in international film festivals, and critical acclaim
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“… Overall, Qureshi’s book expands the debates around fiction film practice as research, offering academic filmmakers an example of best practice that can inform their own projects and inspire new and exciting research trajectories. As the author says, ‘filmmaking is not only a form of cultural production but also a mode of inquiry, a way of knowing and intervening in the world.' The book itself, along with the film it examines, makes precisely this kind of intervention, and it also empowers other research academics to make similar interventions of their own. For this reason, it will appeal to a broad range of creative practitioners and researchers but especially to academic filmmakers who are engaged with producing feature length narrative fiction projects and want to understand how those projects can be most effectively positioned as academic outputs in a higher education setting.” (Dr Orson Nava, Associate Professor, Ravensbourne University in Digital Film Production, London, UK)
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