02-17-2025, 07:30 PM
Film Title (English and/or Native): The Proud Lions (Al-Aswad Alfakhura)
Nominating Nation: Mallacaland
Nomination Category/Categories: Best Documentary
Language: Mallacan Arabic (Dubbed into English, Slokaisian)
Run Time: 118 minutes
Director: Zahir Al-Tawil
Film Rating: LRL (13), Rated All-Audiences in Mallacaland, some profanity, some scenes of conflict
Producing Studio/Company: Gold Stars Productions
Primary Cast:
Jahil Ali (Narrator)
Ibrahim Kamza (Interviewee)
Salam Akthar (Interviewee)
Ernesto Ahmad (Interviewee)
The Proud Lions follow the Mallacaland Baseball Team in the 2024 IDU Baseball Classic, after a surprising rise in the team since the 2021 Olympics. Although produced by Gold Stars Productions, the film was largely funded by its executive producer Jahil Ali, a famous Mallacan-Slokasian actor. The film starts with an interview taken in the early 2000s with a young Ibrahim Kamza, a team veteran during his time in the Slokasian Baseball League. The film flashes forward to the present where a generation of young stars is making noise both in Mallacaland and throughout the diaspora.
The film goes chronologically from pre-training in Dolphin Isle, Slokais to the team’s remarkable run through the group stage and remarkable 9-5 victory over favorites, Laeral. The whole time, the documentary takes a personal look into the major players of the team, from the national hero turned Prime Minister Kamza, to the rising star and refugee Salam Akthar whose home was destroyed, and the financially successful half-Mallacan Ernesto Ahmad who grew up in New Liverpool. This film not only provides an unprecedented look into the Baseball team but gives context to why Mallacaland has become baseball crazy overnight.
What makes this film special? Why was it nominated for this/these category/categories?:
The Proud Lions humanizes the national heroes of Mallacaland yet also makes the team’s success even more unbelievable. From locker-room video to an exclusive interview with PM Ibrahim Kamza, Zahir Al-Tawil takes us both the Baseball Classic but also around the nation of Mallacland accurately capturing the sense of joy this team provides in such as dark times for the people of Mallacland.
Additional Info:
The Proud Lions is one of the first major productions to be completed in Mallacaland since the Civil War, employing many of the few remaining film professionals still residing in the country. A documentary TV series is also in the works following the life and career of Ibrahim Kamza.
Nominating Nation: Mallacaland
Nomination Category/Categories: Best Documentary
Language: Mallacan Arabic (Dubbed into English, Slokaisian)
Run Time: 118 minutes
Director: Zahir Al-Tawil
Film Rating: LRL (13), Rated All-Audiences in Mallacaland, some profanity, some scenes of conflict
Producing Studio/Company: Gold Stars Productions
Primary Cast:
Jahil Ali (Narrator)
Ibrahim Kamza (Interviewee)
Salam Akthar (Interviewee)
Ernesto Ahmad (Interviewee)
The Proud Lions follow the Mallacaland Baseball Team in the 2024 IDU Baseball Classic, after a surprising rise in the team since the 2021 Olympics. Although produced by Gold Stars Productions, the film was largely funded by its executive producer Jahil Ali, a famous Mallacan-Slokasian actor. The film starts with an interview taken in the early 2000s with a young Ibrahim Kamza, a team veteran during his time in the Slokasian Baseball League. The film flashes forward to the present where a generation of young stars is making noise both in Mallacaland and throughout the diaspora.
The film goes chronologically from pre-training in Dolphin Isle, Slokais to the team’s remarkable run through the group stage and remarkable 9-5 victory over favorites, Laeral. The whole time, the documentary takes a personal look into the major players of the team, from the national hero turned Prime Minister Kamza, to the rising star and refugee Salam Akthar whose home was destroyed, and the financially successful half-Mallacan Ernesto Ahmad who grew up in New Liverpool. This film not only provides an unprecedented look into the Baseball team but gives context to why Mallacaland has become baseball crazy overnight.
What makes this film special? Why was it nominated for this/these category/categories?:
The Proud Lions humanizes the national heroes of Mallacaland yet also makes the team’s success even more unbelievable. From locker-room video to an exclusive interview with PM Ibrahim Kamza, Zahir Al-Tawil takes us both the Baseball Classic but also around the nation of Mallacland accurately capturing the sense of joy this team provides in such as dark times for the people of Mallacland.
Additional Info:
The Proud Lions is one of the first major productions to be completed in Mallacaland since the Civil War, employing many of the few remaining film professionals still residing in the country. A documentary TV series is also in the works following the life and career of Ibrahim Kamza.
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