Burnt Roti 2020 Festival

GENESIS CINEMA

Sunday 1st March 2020

9:30am to 5:30pm

Join us for a full day of South Asian based screenings, panel talks, merch stands and comedy!

𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬:
𝑴𝒚 𝑻𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑫𝒐𝒗𝒆 - Directors: Ralph Briscoe & Jay Stephen
𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒙'𝒔 '𝑹𝒆𝒂𝒍 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈' - Directors: Ralph Briscoe & Jay Stephen
𝑵𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒏𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 - Director: Hamza Jeetooa, Writer: Natalie Perera
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑫𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 - Director: Robert Hackett, Writer: Kulvinder Gill

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𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬:
✨𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈
𝗡𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝗸𝗹𝗮
Nikesh Shukla is an novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny . Nikesh is a contributing editor to the Observer Magazine and was previously their columnist. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He is the author of two YA novels, Run, Riot and The Boxer. Nikesh was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller's 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of the literary journal, The Good Journal and The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh is a fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature and a member of the Folio Academy.

𝗩𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹
Vinay’s debut play, True Brits, opened at the Edinburgh Fringe 2014, before transferring to the Bush Theatre and Vault Festival. His latest play, An Adventure, ran at the Bush in late 2018. His first piece for television, Murdered By My Father, won the Royal Television Society award for Best Single Drama and was nominated for three BAFTAs. Vinay was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit for his work.
He has since written for Paines Plough, ITV, Channel 4 and the BFI, as well as contributing to the bestselling collection of essays, The Good Immigrant. Most recently, Vinay wrote for series 11 of Doctor Who and is working on further projects for TV, theatre, radio and film."

𝗔𝗺𝗻𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗺
Amna Saleem is a Scottish Pakistani screenwriter with projects in various stages of development. Her first sitcom, Beta Female, is on BBC Radio 4. She was in the Tez 'O' Clock writers room for Channel 4's late night satire show.
Amna contributed a lively essay to the landmark anthology, It’s Not About The Burqa, featuring Muslim women which subsequently gained national attention for its blunt honesty and humour.
Amna is also a journalist and broadcaster. Her work can be found in national publications such as the Guardian, BBC News and Glamour where she tackles topics such as race, mental health and culture. As a broadcaster she has been featured on the BBC, SKY and ITV amongst others.
Her first ever Tedx Talk is now available online and a YA novel is expected to be released next year.

✨𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝑶𝒖𝒓 𝑱𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑷𝒊𝒈𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆𝒅?
𝗦𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗮 𝗠𝗶𝗿
Saima Mir is an award-winning journalist and writer. Former BBC, her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Guardian, The Times and The Daily Telegraph.
Her debut novel The Khan, is being published by Point Blank. It is due out in January 2021 and has been optioned by BBC Studios.
Her work has also appeared in Its Not About the Burqa, and The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood.
Saima Mir is represented by The Good Literary Agency.

𝗞𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗬𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀
Kieran Yates is a London-based journalist and broadcaster reporting on culture, news and politics. She writes everywhere from The Guardian to Vice, Dazed and can be regularly heard across the BBC, hosting across BBC Asian Network and Radio 4.

𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹
Poorna Bell is an award-winning journalist, the former executive editor of HuffPost UK and she has been named as one of Balance magazine's Top 100 Wellness personalities. She is a Mind Media Awards judge and has appeared on a number of other judging panels including the Decibel prize for the British Book Awards.
She has been awarded the Stylist Rising Star award, a Big Book award for her second book In Search of Silence, and was named in Marie Claire’s Top 30 Women list.
She has published two non-fiction books: Chase The Rainbow and In Search of Silence (Simon & Schuster).

✨𝑰𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉:
𝗛𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗹
Himesh Patel is an English actor known for playing Tamwar Masood on the BBC soap opera EastEnders from 2007 to 2016 and starring in the 2019 romantic comedy film Yesterday.

In 2019, Patel played John Trew in The Aeronauts alongside Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones and has joined the cast of HBO limited series Station Eleven. In 2020, Patel will appear as Jordan Hatwal in the comedy series Avenue 5, starring Hugh Laurie.

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𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐲:
𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐥 𝐙𝐚𝐟𝐚𝐫
Bilal Zafar is a Stand Up comedian, Actor and Writer who was nominated for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2016 and won The Hackney Empire New Act of the Year Award in the same year. He has appeared on BBC1, Channel 4, MTV, Sky Arts and BBC Radio 4.

𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐢 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐞
Shivani is a scientist turned journalist, she has to say (for legal reasons) the opinions stated in her jokes are not that of her employer. When she isn’t reading the news or making jokes about the state of the world she’s either riding a skateboard or trying to hit on your mum... and also probably your dad.

𝐒𝐮𝐤𝐡 𝐎𝐣𝐥𝐚
As a comedian Sukh has performed on BBC2’s Big Asian Stand Up Show and across the BBC Asian Network. In 2019 she took her debut solo show ‘For Sukh’s Sake’ to Edinburgh, which received rave reviews including 5* from Funny Women. In 2020 Sukh will be embarking on a nationwide tour with her new show ‘Life Sukhs’.
As an actor Sukh recently appeared in series 2 of The End of the F**king World (Channel 4) and as a regular role in GameFace (Channel 4), she is also a member of the core cast on Class Dismissed (CBBC). Previously she was a regular role on the sitcom Hospital People (BBC1) and appeared in feature film Victoria and Abdul alongside Judi Dench. Her acting credits also include Future Conditional (Old Vic), Black Mirror (Channel 4) and EastEnders (BBC).

𝐒𝐚𝐛𝐚 𝐇𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐧
Saba Husain is a writer and comedian (Max Turner Prize finalist 2019, 2Northdown New Act of the Year Semi Finalist) who has performed the Heimlich manoeuvre successfully, twice. This is what good karma looks like!

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