Malala Yousafzai Boards Pakistan’s ‘Joyland’ as Government Producer

Malala Yousafzai, who heads her personal movie and TV manufacturing firm, Extracurricular Productions, is becoming a member of “Joyland,” Pakistan’s Oscar submission within the worldwide characteristic class, as an govt producer.

The movie had its world premiere at Cannes earlier this 12 months the place it received the Queer Palm and the jury prize on the competition’s Un Sure Regard strand. It subsequently had its North American premiere at Toronto.

It’s at the moment enjoying at each the BFI London Movie Competition, the place it’s competing for the Sutherland Award, which acknowledges essentially the most authentic and imaginative directorial debut, and the Busan Worldwide Movie Competition, the place it’s within the A Window on Asian Cinema strand.

The story of sexual revolt sees a patriarchal household yearn for the beginning of a child boy to proceed the household line, whereas their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an bold transsexual starlet.

Yousafzai stated: “I’m extremely proud to assist a movie that proves Pakistani artists are among the many greatest in world cinema. ‘Joyland’ invitations us to open our eyes to the individuals closest to us — to see our relations and associates as they’re, not coloured by our personal expectations or societal bias.” 

Yousafzai is likely one of the artistic leaders honored for Selection’s 2022 Energy of Ladies offered by Lifetime. In 2021, Yousafzai struck a multiyear programming pact with Apple TV+ by means of Extracurricular.

Written and directed by Saim Sadiq and produced by Apoorva Guru Charan, Sarmad Sultan Khoosat, and Lauren Mann, “Joyland” stars Ali Junejo, Rasti Farooq, Alina Khan, Sarwat Gilani, Sohail Sameer, Salman Peerzada and Sania Saeed.

The movie is an ALL CAPS + Khoosat Movies manufacturing in affiliation with Extracurricular, Variety Rent Ltd, One Two Twenty Leisure, Blood Moon Artistic, Movie Producers Inc, Astrakan AB, and Noruz Movies.

Producers embrace Kathryn M. Moseley, Oliver Ridge, April Shih, and Katharina Otto-Bernstein, and govt producers are Yousafzai, Ramin Bahrani, William Olsson, Jen Goyne Blake, Tiffany Boyle, Elsa Ramo, Oleg Dubson, Kathrin Lohmann, Hari Charana Prasad, Sukanya Puvvula and Owais Ahmed.

The movie is ready to premiere in Pakistan on Nov. 18. Condor has acquired distribution rights for France and Studio Soho for the U.Okay. and Eire. Movie Constellation reps worldwide gross sales, with WME repping North America.