Outside of North America, the Wild West invokes images of line dancing and country music; Clint Eastwood and John Wayne. But to 36-year-old Irish-born firefighter, Gareth Boyd, the Wild West means so much more. Gareth likes to ride bulls. Big bulls. Not for the faint-hearted, this is rough stock riding – the most dangerous event in the rodeo – where the aim is to stay bareback on a bull for 8 seconds.
Directed by: Heather Taylor, Michelle Tsen
Filmed & Edited by Michelle Tsen
Distributor: Red on Black Productions
Country: UK
Year: 2009
Running time: 4:41 min
Video features/ content for Let's Talk PayPal Director/ Producer/ Editor 2009/ 2010
Let's Talk is a great place to read about what PayPal are doing behind the scenes or to find out about the latest in eCommerce. In addition to PayPal related topics, Heather regularly produces video interviews and podcasts with experts in finance, social media and web development, to help you use PayPal and the internet better. She'll also be featuring merchants and individuals who use PayPal to find out how it works for them.
The Last Thakur London Film Festival Premiere Dubai International Film Festival October, 2008
UK film-maker Sadik Ahmed directs this intense contemporary Western, which takes place in a remote town in the marshlands of Bangladesh. A mysterious young man, Kala, arrives armed with a rifle. He immediately creates a stir in the small town and especially attracts the attention of two rival leaders: the ruthless and powerful Chairman who runs the place and purports to represent his people and the one man that stands in his way: the local Thakur, one of the last Hindu landlords, who is manically re-claiming all the surrounding land for which loans remain un-paid in order to build a temple.
Walking into the middle of this bitter feud, Kala soon finds himself approached by both men to take their side. Broke and hungry, Kala begins to bargain with them, but he is here on his own mission, to find the man that raped and killed his mother and take his revenge. Some of Bangladesh's finest theatre performers offer great performances. Ahmed's training as a cinematographer is clearly evident in the bold picturisation of haunting landscapes and hollow-face-men with murder on their minds.
“This beautifully shot film perfectly captures the rising tension
between the characters as the story heads towards its inexorable
bloody conclusion." - BBC London
Directed by: Sadik Ahmed
Written by: Heather Taylor, Sadik Ahmed
Cast: Tariq Anam, Tanveer Hasan, Rubel Ahmed, Anisur Rahman Milon
Distributor: Artificial Eye
Country: UK-Bangladesh
Year: 2008
Running time: 81min
