First-time director Usman Riaz explains how a pirate VHS tape of Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989) sparked his love for animation and led to his own landmark hand-drawn feature, The Glassworker. And then I discovered Studio Ghibli completely by chance through a rented VHS tape. And in July 2015 I gave that talk, and an event manager [for Studio Ghibli], Hashida Shin, invited me to the studio. Slowly my youthful exuberance was replaced by the reality that there’s no real film industry in Pakistan. I spoke before about Kiki’s Delivery Service – that’s the film I want to make now, something that can inspire and delight.