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Antonio Aakeel is a British actor from Wolverhampton – based in Birmingham – who has appeared in British TV dramas and international feature films including Hollywood and Bollywood productions. A seasoned star of stage and screen, the thespian was in 2018 named a Screen International Star of Tomorrow by Screen Daily. Here’s photos of Antonio Aakeel from…
We started the year with highlighting ten of the city’s rising stars for 2018, and featured prominently on the list was Wolverhampton-born actor Antonio Aakeel. The promising young talent from Wolves – now based between Birmingham and London – Antonio’s inclusion was on the merit of the number of incredibly intense and striking roles he had been racking up in the last…
Brummie rising star Antonio Aakeel – who appears in currently screening blockbuster Tomb Raider – has just wrapped up filming a gritty but light-hearted coming-of-age drama in southern Spain. After months of filming, the young West Midlands actor has completed production within the Iberian peninsula, in the UK feature Granada Nights.
A young actor from Birmingham is to appear alongside top British actors in a feature-length international film, due to be released in cinemas next year. Antonio Aakeel, 20, will be starring alongside Riz Ahmed of Four Lions and Nightcrawler fame, and Doctor Who and Penny Dreadful star Billie Piper in upcoming British crime thriller City…
Birmingham-based photographer Sam Jordanne has a passion for capturing images with a cinematic quality. Her imaginative and creative style is unique and aims to compliment her work as a videographer. Having captured stunning portraits of professional musicians and artists, she discusses her passion for photography and why representation is important.
BBC One’s daytime drama Doctors returns to filming today, with production having been on pause since March due to lockdown; other than a special episode in early June, entirely self-shot by the cast at home on their mobile phones. The popular medical soap opera – launched in March 2000 – is primarily filmed in Birmingham and…
An open letter criticising the organisers of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham about a lack of diversity has been signed by prominent figures from across the city. Endorsed by community representatives from across Birmingham, the letter challenges officials organising the Commonwealth Games to take seriously concerns about unequal representation at the top of the planned event’s…
Diwali, the ‘Festival of Lights’, is being celebrated today – Wednesday 7th November – by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists. For those taking part, it’s a celebration of goodness overcoming evil, light over darkness, knowledge over ignorance and hope over despair.
A brand new film festival showcasing a wide range of powerful documentaries, talks and discussion panels is coming to Birmingham next month. Weekend of Wednesdays, described as a festival dedicated to “cinematic activism”, will be screening documentaries and short film programmes highlighting social movements and people power, in September.
Europe’s largest Indian film fest is returning to Birmingham this summer for its fourth year in the city. The Birmingham Indian Film Festival – known as BIFF – is a cinematic treasure trove of carefully curated premieres of South Asian independent films, offering rare glimpses into some of the billion plus lives in the sub-continent.