Most selection committees are made up of entertainment industry professionals rather than government officials. The only other Pakistani Oscar winner (to date) is the actor Riz Ahmed who won in the live action short category and is, coincidentally, an executive producer on Joyland. She was the first Pakistani ever nominated for an Oscar and she's won twice for the documentary shorts Saving Face (2011) and A Girl in the River (2015). In Pakistan the submissions are determined by the "Pakistani Academy Selection Committee" which is currently run by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. And again, the Academy has no say in how other countries do their film business.
It's no longer opening as promised here at trailer's end. The trailer released before the film was banned in Pakistan. Questions naturally crop out like "Why would a country submit a film and then ban it?" and "Can it still compete?" so let's answer those.īoth questions are simple and complicated simultaneously so let's take them individually Just a week before its premiere in Pakistan its release was denied, endangering its Oscar run.
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It first came to international attention when it premiered at Cannes (the first Pakistani movie to do so) and won both Un Certain Regard and the Queer Palm. The movie, a brilliant feature debut from 31 year old filmmaker Saim Sadiq, is a drama about a young husband in Lahore who falls for a trans performer after being hired by a local dance theater. Now we have another of those stories via Pakistan's Oscar submission Joyland. When the story of censorship visibly collides with the Oscar race, though, it's usually across the border and in the Best International Feature Film category. It's less a case of banning art than an attempt to keep storytellers in line with accepted norms, however conservative those norms might be in their time. self-censorship from the industry to prevent outside censorship from the government. The ways in which we think of censorship in Hollywood cinema usually involve ratings boards or production codes. Saim Sadiq (via Instagram, left) and a memorable shot from his feature debut "Joyland" (right)Ĭensorship has been part of the history of art forever.
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