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The Tent Peggers of Bradford

Short film In Production 2024

BFI Doc Society Made of Truth

Producer

Fahd Ahmed

 

Director

Farhaan Mumtaz Husain

 

Director

Roopa Gogineni

 

Doc Society helped with

Production

 

 

Two horse-obsessed teenagers come of age at a stables in West Yorkshire. Carrying forward the ancient pastime of tent pegging, they make new futures.

Crew

Fahd Ahmed

Producer

Fahd Ahmed (producer, editor) is an editor and producer who

grew up between Bradford and London. He was the producer

on the leading multi-series Arab Ramadan show, Kannak Tarah,

and has edited for the BBC and PBS-funded docuseries A Town

Called Victoria. He was a fellow in the Gotham Edit Lab, Close-

Up Initiative Edit Lab, and Sundance Story and Edit Lab. He

edited and co-produced the first feature doc, Q (Jude Chehab,

2023), which won the Albert Maysles Best New Documentary

Director Award at Tribeca and the Grand Jury New

International First Feature Award at Sheffield Docfest.

Farhaan Mumtaz Husain

Director

Farhaan Mumtaz (director, associate producer) is a director,

researcher and primary school teacher from Bradford. His

short documentary Dear Bradford was one of the most viewed

Guardian documentaries of 2022. It went on to screen at the

Whitechapel and Bow Arts galleries and the Bradford Literature

Festival. He directed and produced Loughborough Junction, a

film exploring gentrification, for Public Works. He worked as a

researcher on India in a Day, the worldʼs largest crowd-sourced

documentary.

Roopa Gogineni

Director

Roopa Gogineni (director, producer, editor) is a Paris-based

filmmaker and photographer. For a decade, she lived in Nairobi,

developing a collaborative practice alongside communities of

resistance in East Africa. Her films, described as intimate and

urgent, have premiered at festivals including IDFA, SXSW, Hot

Docs and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Her work has been supported by

the Sundance Institute, BFI Doc Society, CatchLight, Firelight

and Chicken & Egg Pictures. She is the coordinator of Night

School, a network of grassroots film clubs for displaced

Sudanese.