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.
Explained simply
Faisal Hashmi is a Dubai-based writer and director who has made short films in horror and other genre styles. His new company, Spine Drop Pictures, is developing three feature films: Off Plan, set across six connected stories in Dubai; Cinder, based on his short film Amber; and Latching, set in Karachi.
The films are intended to use compact stories and budgets below $1 million. The project is part of a developing independent film sector in the UAE, where filmmakers are seeking ways to make features outside larger studio budgets. Hashmi is looking for investors and partners to help finance and distribute the films.
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