Dubai-Based Director Faisal Hashmi Launches Spine Drop Pictures & Inaugural Horror Slate
Dubai-based director and writer Faisal Hashmi has launched Spine Drop Pictures, a production company focused on genre films, and announced three horror features. The venture aims to show how contained, high-concept stories can be made on budgets below $1 million, supporting commercially viable filmmaking in the UAE’s emerging independent film market.
The slate comprises *Off Plan*, an anthology of six connected stories set in Dubai over one night; *Cinder*, a supernatural thriller expanding on Hashmi’s award-winning short *Amber*; and *Latching*, a feminist possession-revenge story set in Karachi. Hashmi has made 10 genre shorts, which have earned more than three million combined YouTube views, and is seeking investment, co-production, financing and distribution partners for the films.
In short
- Faisal Hashmi has launched horror-focused company Spine Drop Pictures.
- Its first slate includes three features set in Dubai, the UAE and Karachi.
- The films are planned as high-concept productions budgeted below $1 million.
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