Synopsis:
THE COLLABORATOR is a coming-of-age story about a “Boy” growing up during the height of the border war over Kashmir. In the early 1990s, young men in villages all over Kashmir are disappearing. Fearing that they’re being recruited to become “freedom fighters” in the war to free Kashmir from India, the Indian army occupies the villages. The Boy is forced by an Indian army officer to perform a grim task, to go into the valley where the war is being fought and collect ID cards from the dead, and the Boy fears each day that he will find one of his missing friends lying amongst the dead. Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Mirza Waheed
Directors: Travis Hodgkins
Travis Hodgkins studied film and fiction writing as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. His scripts have advanced to the finals in multiple screenwriting competitions, including Austin Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, and Creative World Awards, among others. He wrote the script for the feature film A NEW CHRISTMAS, which premiered at the Heartland Film Festival in 2019 as an official selection and was licensed for distribution by Cinedigm. THE COLLABORATOR is his feature film directorial debut
Writers: Travis Hodgkins | Producers: Rashaana Shah, Cristy Coors Beasley | Editing: Jamie Kirkpatrick | DOP: Johan Holmquist | Music: Wayne Sharpe | Language: English | Subtitle: Arabic