I'm generally quite an angry person, and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

As filmmakers, you're not working on just one project, you're producing something, directing something, shooting something, and so it becomes hard to do it by yourself.

When you play music, you don't need a language. Music is a language.

When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.

When I'm not working on the ground, spending time with my husband and daughter puts me at ease.

But the biggest challenge overall was narrowing down the complex narrative elements into a clean and straightforward story while maintaining a sense of the cultural context that makes the film special.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.