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In 2002, I became a documentary filmmaker after having studied economics and political science in college. I knew that was my calling. Pakistan only had one state owned television channel back then, so I wrote up a proposal for my film and sent it to 80 television channels and production houses around the world.
I waited for them to respond. The brutal rejection letters followed. I fought back tears, disappointment and heart ache.
I couldn’t understand why anyone didn’t want to fund the first film of a 21 year old Pakistani woman who didn’t even know how to hold a camera and who had not studied film at all! Clearly people were more pragmatic than I gave them credit for.
I persisted. One day, I wrote to the president of New York Times Television an unsolicited email along with my proposal. I received a response finally! I was invited to make my pitch in person! Soon afterwards I found myself in front of seasoned filmmakers and journalists making a presentation. My project was approved and I was given training to go off to make my film.
My 81st attempt had been successful! The choice I had was simple give up or to be relentless in pursuit of my passion!
You will find that the school of hard knocks which is also real life, has many twists and turns – there will be moments when giving up will seem like the right thing to do; when you may find your situation hopeless.
Make the choice: be relentless.
Click here to read aku.edu/convocation – Graduates urged to ‘make a choice’
Ismailimail 
great work we the people of PAKISTAN are very very proud of you,make a film about poverty in Pakistan and why are so many children dying in Mithi in Sindh,have they buried nuclear waste there,alredy about -according to the media reports-200 children died in 2016
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