#30 - Neha Lalani: When Multitalented Artist From Dubai Explores Different Forms of Art

Neha Lalani is a film graduate from Dubai, currently working as a digital experience associate at Informa Connect Middle East. Although Neha is of Pakistani descent, she has lived her entire life in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she grew up and found her love of films. This passion was ignited after watching Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin and persisted since then. Neha decided to do media studies before enrolling in university, and in her spare time, continued to hone her film-related skills. The global pandemic affected her academic experience, but in spite of that, her final short film found some success at film festivals throughout the world and continues competing. After her graduation, Neha joined Informa, where she now works as a digital experience associate creating various forms of online content. Along with some helpful advice, we also talk about Neha's future plans, favourite projects as well as artists and her own online content. Listen to this episode to discover more about life in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, get inspired by Neha's keen enthusiasm for exploring different kinds of art and learn more about how her work was shown on the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa.

Connect with Neha:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/neha-lalani/
• https://www.youtube.com/c/NehaLalani
• https://www.instagram.com/lonelyleitmotif/

Short film:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJ3iMzS0px8&ab_channel=NehaLalani

Topics:

• Introduction
• Background
• Living in Dubai
• Dubai, Abu Dhabi and UAE
• Education and university 
• Final short film
• Festivals
• Advice 
• Getting into the industry 
• Current job
• Editing software
• Creativity
• Future plans
• Favorite films
• Personal projects
• Doing music
• The film industry in Dubai and the UAE
• Follow Neha

Quotes:

“I was so surprised with how real that looks and that kind of was the start of, oh wow, there's this whole world of film, content, media and all that. So that was when I decided I wanted to make movies when I was 11.”

“Not to put me on a high horse, but I was the director, the writer, the editor, the colourist, the music composer. And also I played the music and I acted in it which is horrible.”

“A lot of the times I've heard that people have actually cried at the end of the movie after they've seen it. Because it is an emotional film and it doesn't end happily. It ends on a sad note.“

“Sometimes they have the light show, which is the fountain show and it's choreographed with the Burj Khalifa as well so the projection kind of matches. And they had a New Year's Eve video advertisement and I got a chance to edit that advertisement which they put up on.”

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