Pakistan’s first hand-drawn animated film, The Glassworker, has launched its first trailer. The function, directed by Usman Riaz, is scheduled to open in Pakistani cinemas on July 26, 2024.
The Glassworker, which hails from Mano Animation Studios, has but to obtain a world launch date. Nevertheless, Selection reported that the animated function will probably be screened on the Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition alongside different titles together with Despicable Me 4, Inside Out 2, Moana 2, and Transformers One.
The upcoming movie may also be screened on the Cannes Movie Market. The English voice solid for The Glassworker contains Artwork Malik (Man Like Mobeen), Sacha Dhawan (Wolf), Anjli Mohindra (The Lazarus Challenge), Tony Jayawardena (Ackley Bridge), Teresa Gallagher (Octonauts & The Nice Barrier Reef), Maya Soraya, Sham Ali, and Mina Anwar.
What’s The Glassworker about?
Set in a location loosely impressed by Pakistan, the animated movie will heart on younger Vincent, whose father runs the nation’s best glass workshop. They are going to quickly discover their lives altering earlier than their eyes when an approaching conflict begins to threaten their nation.
“Younger Vincent and his father, Tomas, run the best glass workshop within the nation and discover their lives upended by an impending conflict during which they need no half. The arrival of their city of a military colonel and his younger, proficient violinist daughter, Alliz, shakes their actuality and assessments the connection between father and son,” the official synopsis for The Glassworker reads.
Riaz takes delight in trying to make the first-ever animated movie in Pakistan. In an announcement, the director revealed that the movie has been in growth for a decade.
“I began this journey 10 years in the past in 2014. Nobody believed it was attainable. To have the movie premiere at Annecy 2024 alongside a few of the best-animated movies on this planet is a sense I can’t actually describe. I’m overjoyed and in awe,” stated Riaz. “Nobody had ever tried to make a hand-drawn animated movie in Pakistan for an excellent purpose — it’s inconceivable. We’ve all labored extraordinarily arduous to make this attainable. I’m grateful to the Annecy crew for believing in ‘The Glassworker,’ not simply as a movie, however for what it represents, which is the facility of perseverance.”
