Hala
Jana Babatunde-Bey was an Executive Producer on Apple + feature HALA, which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival and was the first feature launched on the Apple+ Platform.
About
Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations; as she comes into her own, she grapples with a secret that threatens to unravel her family.
Production
Hala is a 2019 American drama film written and directed by Minhal Baig. The film was screened in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and was released in a limited theatrical release on November 22, 2019, followed by digital streaming on December 6, 2019, by Apple TV+. It is based on a previous short film by Baig made in 2016 by the same name.
Production Companies
Apple Original Films
Endeavor Content
Overbrook Entertainment
Released
December 6, 2019
Sundance Film Festival
93 minutes
United States
Directed by Minhal Baig
Written by Minhal Baig
Starring
Geraldine Viswanathan
Jack Kilmer
Gabriel Luna
Anna Chlumsky
Cinematography by Carolina Costa
Edited by Saela Davis
Music by Mandy Hoffman
All Credits
Achievements
Achievements
Achievements
Film Festival Premiere
“Effortlessly conveying this bifurcation, the young Australian actor Geraldine Viswanathan is, quite simply, sublime.”
– The New York Times
Press for HALA
Press for HALA
Press for HALA
2019
Minhal Baig’s film “Hala” is based on her own life and dynamic with her parents, who are immigrants from Pakistan. Jada Pinkett Smith openly admits it was hard to make a movie like this in Hollywood.
2019
“And I said, ‘No, I intended to make a coming-of-age story about this specific young woman who happens to be Muslim and Pakistani American."
2019
The title character of “Hala” — a Pakistani-American teenager in her final year of high school — is cautious with her words, but avidly curious with her eyes and ears.
