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From TED's Youngest Senior Fellow to Oscar Submission: Usman Riaz on Naivety, Faith & the Glassworker
At 23, Usman Riaz stood on a TED stage, TED's youngest-ever senior fellow, and told the world he was going to make Pakistan's first animated film. What followed was a decade of funding crises, borrowed faith, and moments where he genuinely didn't know if the project would survive the month. Usman Riaz joins Ritika Agrawal to take us inside that decade, the naivety that made it possible, the family finances that kept it alive, and what it felt like to stand on the other side of a miracle.
Credits: The Glassworker, Pakistan's first hand-drawn animated feature film, Oscar submission and…
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