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Biography

Naqqash Khalid is a writer/director from Manchester UK.

His debut feature film IN CAMERA, starring Nabhaan Rizwan (Industry, Station11), Amir El-Masry (BAFTA-winning Limbo, The Crown), and Rory Fleck Byrne (BAFTA-winning This Is Going To Hurt), was produced by Juliette Larthe at Prettybird Ltd and Mary Burke at Public Dreams Ltd and was backed by BBC Film, the BFI, and Uncommon Studios. Naqqash’s short film Stock was commissioned for television and had its premiere in 2019 as part of Sky’s Post-Brexit series ‘Art 50’. His previous short form work has been supported by Sky, BBC Arts, and Arts Council England. Naqqash is adapting Boris Vian’s The Empire Builders as a four-part limited series. Naqqash was selected as one of Screen International’s Stars of Tomorrow 2020.