Shaz Syed

WHEN THE PEACOCKS SING - A PREQUEL TO THE MONSOONS (2014)

The University of Salford, Mediacity, Manchester, UK
Role: Director-cameraman, Editor, Narrator, Logistics Manager

A film on the pre-monsoons of Rajasthan, and its fauna that is native to this region in northwest India. The receding summer gives way to an oncoming monsoon, making Rajasthan one of the best spectacles of transformation. Sitting on the cusp of two seasons, this film showcases the behavior of its inhabitants – human and animals just before the monsoons hit, and how the long-awaited rains finally break the heat spell in what is one of the world’s driest landscapes.