Kamran’s directed new feature film Only Love Matters (2022) has done phenomenally well on the film festival circuit and has won over 30 awards including Best Director, Best Producer, Best Feature Film, Best Screenplay, Best Production Design, Best Actress, Best Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Makeup, Best Romantic film, Best Women film, Best Message and Best Original Idea.
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Kamran was a guest speaker to talk about Open Research Practice and Transparency in Art and Humanities along with his intersex database and film Only Love Matters. He was also supporting as UEA local representative with the UK reproducibility network (UKRN, a peer-led consortium for world-leading research) at the University of East Anglia. UKRN is hosting a series of events across and within UEA faculties and disseminate UKRN information. The team invite speakers who prepare their talk to discuss a topic about sharing research data.
Please see link: https://www.ukrn.org/2021/09/24/new-animated-explainer-on-data-sharing-now-available-to-view-online/
Less than a week to go until our next and final talk of this year by Dr. Kamran Qureshi! An insight into intersex narratives and screen works database for publishing research! UEA UKRN is promoting reproducible research across disciplines – Join us on Thurs, 30th June! pic.twitter.com/5Se8bTNsLM
— ReproducibiliTea UEA (@ReproTeaUEA) June 24, 2022
Wonderful news, Dr Kamran Qureshi has received his Fellowship status (FHEA) from Advance HE. He is officially a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK.
Wonderful news, so happy to receive my Fellowship status (FHEA) from @AdvanceHE🙂
— Kamran Qureshi (@DrQureshiKamran) June 28, 2022
Heartfelt thank you for your support @EylemAtakav @RichardJHand @DrIramQureshi @lornarichardson @KhaldounShami #ChristineCornea @uofeastanglia #SamParkinson #SonalVij #ApoorvPadhye #DazhangWang pic.twitter.com/L99d55FubE
Only Love Matters is the winner of Public Engagement Awards 2022 of University of East Anglia.
“It’s no wonder that the panel were all staggered by the work undertaken – it gave them goosebumps! – and, for that, Dr Qureshi was awarded special recognition.
Only Love Matters is now in the process of distribution and is expected to be commercially released in cinemas and Netflix later this year.” University of East Anglia.
UEA Link: https://stories.uea.ac.uk/engagement-awards-2022/index.html
Kamran Qureshi’s project Only Love Matters has been a finalist for the Outstanding Social or Cultural Impact category! in the Innovation and Impact Awards 2022 at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The Awards ceremony took place on 10th of May at The Assembly House, Norwich, UK.
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Kamran is presenting his practice-based research and discuss his new romantic family drama feature film Only Love Matters, at the JAM (Journeys Across Media) Conference, by the Department of Film, Theatre and Television, at Minghella Studios, University of Reading, on the 28 April 2022.
Continue Reading…Lovely to meet Gemma Cutler-Colcough, Andrew Philip, Adam O’Brien & Dana Combs Leigh. Congratulations for organising wonderful hybrid JAM, an interdisciplinary international conference #theory #practice @ftt_reading @UniofReading. @UEAResearch @FTM_UEA @uniofeastanglia pic.twitter.com/AySpUkLKZS
— Kamran Qureshi (@DrQureshiKamran) April 28, 2022
Kamran Qureshi’s Peer-reviewed Journal Article An exploration of intersex characters in Indian Cinema is publishing in issue 61 of (American journal) Jump Cut in September 2022.
Please see link here https://www.ejumpcut.org/gatewaypages/aboutus.html
Proud to be associated with the 2022 Green Film Festival Team. It is an annual environmentally themed film festival in Norwich, England, which holds film screenings, workshops, speeches, and other events. The Green Film Festival provides an exciting programme of free film screenings and events, presenting and bringing together intersecting ideas and interests within environmental issues and cinema. The festival is supported by the University of East Anglia and free to everyone. It aims to generate conversations around global environmental challenges and solutions.
Website: https://www.ueagreenfilmfestival.co.uk/meet-the-team
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I’m glad to have my chapter, “A Critical Analysis of The Transgender (Intersex) Persons Act, 2018, in Pakistan vs United Nations Recommendations” in the new book, Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex, edited by Megan Walker and published by Palgrave Macmillan in Jan 2022, I have written on the United Nations recommendations and international media’s role on intersex human rights and laws.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91475-2_11
Contributors: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/bfm%3A978-3-030-91475-2%2F1.pdf
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Kamran Qureshi’s global STARmeter ranking this week among actors and filmmakers.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4468748/
Continue Reading…I am delighted & honoured to be invited by Prof Surya Monro for today’s talk (3rd December 2021) at The INIA Network (Intersex New Interdisciplinary Approaches) supported by a grant from the European Commission, to speak about my Practice As Research on Intersex characters in Hollywood, British & Australian Cinemas & my new feature film Only Love Matters.
Please see https://www.intersexnew.co.uk/
Big News – Kamran Qureshi’s directed recent movie Only Love Matters is the winner of 5 Gold and 2 Silver in Hollywood Gold Awards, Los Angeles, California, United States including Best Director, Best Feature Film, Best Original Screenplay, Production Design, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.
Continue Reading…Dr Kamran Qureshi created a first-ever substantial intersex narrative and screen works database in 2016 and started collecting information about intersex verified media including films, television, radio and theatre. This database includes 140 films with major or minor intersex characters, shorts and documentaries, starting from 1932 till 2021. Over 70 of these entries are feature films in 12 languages such as English, Chinese, Italian, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Japanese, French, Swedish and Cantonese.
His Team is working on a new database website which will be publicly available soon. Free information available at https://intersexdatabase.com/
Pease send an email to info@intersexdatabase.com if you have verifiable data to add, thanks.
Team Dr Kamran Qureshi.
Presenting new research paper ‘Film vs TV: Intersex representation in Australian media’ in the international interdisciplinary conference ‘Intersex 2020: A Vision for the Future’ at the Dublin City University, Ireland on the 22nd April 2021.
Delighted to share my paper on Australian Film vs TV @IntersexMap @TheDCUniverse & a part of the Art panel. Congratulations @tanyanim @astaines & Mel Duffy on a terrific conference and to gather great speakers from around the globe #AustralianFilms #AustralianTV @uniofeastanglia pic.twitter.com/jeJIkcGCH7
— Kamran Qureshi (@MrKamranQureshi) April 22, 2021
Beautiful evening talk with the Canadian TV host and producer, Sal Ahmed, in his show “Open Talk with Sal Ahmed” (South Asian entertainment show in Toronto, Canada).
Heading back to London. Well done #TeamOLM on the completion of Indian spell. I am so happy to work with such beautiful people in the desert. #KQMovies
Brief Encounters journal: We would like to thank Communication Editor Kamran Qureshi, University of East Anglia (UEA), for helping us recruit the new board, enliven our social media presence and publicise this issue. #BriefEncountersjournal #CHASE #BElaunch2020 #CHASE
A memory with my London Film Academy’s friends, a short film 10years back shot in 2010. Oscar went back to Columbia and after a long time, he visited us in London. Many thanks to our lovely team Malcolm Stewart, Peter Thomas, Kathy Trevelyan, Jan Kolvacin, Ross McNamara, Johnny Stewart, Iram Qureshi, Hareem Qureshi and Oscar Lopez.
Kamran Qureshi presented his research paper “The impact of Transgender Persons Act, 2018 on the intersex community in Pakistan” at the international conference in the University of Lincoln.
Continue Reading…Thank you to all the amazing people who joined us @unilincoln for #IPI2019 with @GlanvilleCentre.
— Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Intersex (@IPI2019) July 19, 2019
Wow! What an exhilarating three days! pic.twitter.com/EdyjVPl5SE
Kamran Qureshi presented his research project about Hollywood, British and Australian Cinema as a part of AVPhD series at the University of Westminster titled The Representation of Intersex Characters in English Feature Films. Special thanks to Roshini and Rachel. Pic credit: Joe Jackson.
Related link:
https://www.westminster.ac.uk/cream/news/research-awards/avphd
https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/publications/the-representation-of-intersex-characters-in-english-feature-film
Kamran Qureshi presented his research paper about the ‘Intersex Representation in US Television Drama Series 1994-2019′ presented at the London Screen Studies Conference 2019 at the Birkbeck, University of London. Thank you, Rachel Moore, Joe Jackson, Catherine Bengesser and Giulia Bindi.
Continue Reading…Kamran Qureshi identifies 4 themes of intersex representation in TV drama: freakish, surgical interventions, social problems & psychological. #SSG19 pic.twitter.com/76a4eIlRXA
— Dr. Lisa Duffy (@_LisaWithAnS) June 8, 2019
MA Film, Television and Creative Practice, what an extremely talented group of students I have in my class from around the globe and more girls than boys learning practice through the academic understanding of film and television University of East Anglia.
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The 2019 Philosophy of Film, Without Theory interdisciplinary conference covered various topics on the idea of Philosophy without theory, as a plurality of methodologies that include fine-grained description and discernment; disentangling confusions; reactive and/or reflective critical inquiry, the exploration of conceptual connection; logical geography; conceptual synthesis; the provision of perspicuous presentations and survivable overviews; non-systematic engagement with individual or particular works, subject, ideas, events and/or situation… and more.
Continue Reading…Actor Paul talking about his character in Kingdom of Hearts (TV Drama Series) Aka ‘Riyasat’ and Director Kamran Qureshi.
