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I’m the ballad of the lonesome loser | TV's Invisible Man - Token Brown Guy working on a TV set near you | Freelance #DIT | Wannabe storyteller www.shibbir.tv

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Riz Ahmed’s take on Hamlet is in cinemas from TODAY!!!! If you go and watch it, let me know what you think ✊🏾

06.02.2026 11:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

09.12.2025 17:35 👍 12439 🔁 2909 💬 120 📌 445
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I’m not sure how you’re meant to react when the critics review something you’ve worked on as “the most dreadful thing to happen to Christmas since King Herod” + “This is the worst film since Cats” / “has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog”
Oh well, anyways shout out to the crew!

14.11.2025 12:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Loved this bit from the recent Jeff Buckley doc. I wish there was video footage from that meeting between Nusrat-saab & Jeff but this story from Joan Wasser is joyful and heartbreaking at the same time. The image taken by Jack Vartoogian is one of my favourite shots ever taken.

14.09.2025 15:30 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Is it me or is Reuben Amorim begging to be sacked? But that quote made me laugh, cause if you swapped out the word ‘player’ with ‘crew’ you’d think he was talking about the lifecycle of a freelancer working in film & tv

29.08.2025 19:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This is how I’d spend all my free time*

(*If I could actually sing/play the harmonium & the tabla🥹)

21.08.2025 21:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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This could be a fantastic opportunity for someone from the South Asian community to get their foot in the door. I can’t tell you how rare a shout out like this is. As a group, we’re still woefully underrepresented on set as crew behind the camera. Pass on the word if you can

21.08.2025 08:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry to hear this. It’s been a rough year my end too. Can’t figure out how much longer to carry on if this continues

19.08.2025 18:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’ve been urging productions/HoD’s to expand their crews to be more inclusive. Sadly with the exception of projects like Hamlet & The Roots Manoeuvre, it’s been an uphill struggle
Crew diversity has reverted back to Pre-Covid levels. Which makes me believe it was all performative

19.08.2025 11:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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TV is in trouble - but keeping its promises on diversity can save it Despite a huge response to Black Lives Matter, progress is stalling, says Trent Williams-Jones

TV is in trouble | Television has been run by the same demographic for over 70 years. If we want to keep up, we need new people in the room, people who can see the audience in a different way

www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comment/tv-i...

19.08.2025 11:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Playlist · Shibbir · 32 items · 1 saves

It’s my #NusratFatehAliKhan playlist up on Spotify. Not definitive (Missing the songs off the Dead Man Walking score) but it’s my wish list of tracks I would’ve loved to have experienced live
open.spotify.com/playlist/4bh...

16.08.2025 11:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hamlet Riz Ahmed electrifies in director Aneil Karia’s bold, brilliant, and stunning reinvention of <em>Hamlet</em>, set in present-day London’s South Asian community.

If I wasn't gonna start working and was free to fly over to Toronto, I would've been there in a heartbeat - tiff.net/films/hamlet

13.08.2025 14:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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AI-Altered ‘Raanjhanaa’ Ending Escalates Eros-Aanand L. Rai Dispute Over Creative Rights: ‘Indian Cinema Now Stands at Its Own Inflection Point’ Eros International and director Aanand L. Rai clash over AI-altered 'Raanjhanaa' ending, with both sides citing legal rights and creative ethics.

AI-Altered ‘Raanjhanaa’ Ending Escalates Eros-Aanand L. Rai Dispute Over Creative Rights: ‘Indian Cinema Now Stands at Its Own Inflection Point’ | What a depressing state of affairs. Who’d wanna work with Eros going forward?

variety.com/2025/film/ne...

28.07.2025 12:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The betrayal feels real even if it’s only ever one-sided. #SetLife #DitonSet

18.07.2025 09:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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👋🏾 just posting again to say I’m available for work. Hoping to speak to DOP’s about their next projects should they be looking for a DIT 🙏🏾

15.07.2025 22:51 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

What these companies don't get or seem to care about is those of us who are professionals in post-production and rely on tools like WeTransfer to send materials to clients have also signed NDAs that are complete conflict with their new TOS.

Legally we CAN'T use WeTransfer now.

14.07.2025 23:15 👍 1199 🔁 266 💬 12 📌 8

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

14.07.2025 23:05 👍 7591 🔁 5276 💬 128 📌 464
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

14.07.2025 23:57 👍 6946 🔁 3735 💬 213 📌 990
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Love this bit from the #Sinners Making Of
Only have had it happen a couple of times in my career where the director+producer+Asst editor will cut together a sizzle/blooper reel for the crew. It’s the best present a production can give to the crew. Nice to catch a glimpse of all our labour as we wrap

06.07.2025 19:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Day 01 of a TV shoot vs Day 100!

(Jokes aside, look I have no sympathy for her or anyone serving this government)

02.07.2025 16:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But I’d rather have a clear conscience with the project I choose to do than do something I know I’ll regret.

01.07.2025 11:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sometimes in this industry you make honest mistakes with the projects you take on, but if it doesn’t align with my personal beliefs then I’ll respectfully step aside. It does cost you your professional relationships & that’s a bitter pill to swallow.

01.07.2025 11:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Super Bowl halftime performer arrested after police say he held flag stating ‘Sudan and Free Gaza.’ | CNN A performer at Kendrick Lamar’s Super Bowl halftime performance in February has been arrested after holding up a Sudanese flag with the message “Sudan and Free Gaza,” Louisiana State Police announced ...

A decent chance Colin Kaepernick gets arrested today for taking a knee during the anthem. amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/...

27.06.2025 04:56 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 1
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This is the part of the job I struggle with - securing the next gig but we’ve all gotta do it. Would love to line up the next job sooner rather than later. Open to short/long form projects & would love to connect with new DOP’s as well as reconnect with DOP’s who’ve worked with me in the past.

19.06.2025 10:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How the U.K. Film and TV Industry Is Juggling a Boom in Hollywood Productions Like ‘Avengers’ and ‘Harry Potter’ and a Bust for Everything Else: ‘It’s Feast or Famine Right Now’ If the UK has become such a hot spot for Hollywood and home to Avengers and Harry Potter, why are so many film and TV industry workers out of a job?

Another bleak year ahead for freelancers in TV & Film. Unless you’re working on a Marvel/Harry Potter, the prospect of picking up work is dire indeed. Will have to bunker down & see if the phone rings again with a job offer

variety.com/2025/film/gl...

15.06.2025 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This time next week I’ll be wrapped & de-rigging. Not that I’m panicking (I AM PANICKING) but any of you lovely folks need a DIT to offload/grade your rushes/make crew badges/wrap posters on long form drama & feature film projects? Please get in touch🙏🏾 #SetLife #FilmJobs

03.06.2025 08:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I loved, loved, loved The Ballad Of Wallis Island.
Charming, sweet, achingly beautiful. A cinematic balm to this weary soul.
Congrats to Tom Basden, Tim Key, James Griffiths & Carey Mulligan on making an instant British Classic.
Please please please support this film at your local cinemas.

02.06.2025 20:51 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I promise you’ve never heard #NitKhairManga quite like this - This was Rushil Ranjan & Abi Sampa of Orchestral Qawwali Project along with many others, reinterpret a Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Qawwali classic

24.05.2025 17:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m asking as it’s very rare occurrence on a film set for me but was advised the optics would be bad. It’s still bugging me

17.05.2025 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’m asking this based on something that happened earlier this week. If you were surrounded by a crew full of excellent Black & Brown crew/Technicians and wanted to capture that moment, would that be offensive to the White crew if they weren’t included in the photo.

17.05.2025 19:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0