{"id":3167,"date":"2008-04-09T12:44:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T12:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/student-raises-awareness-of-gun-dangers\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T10:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T10:54:02","slug":"student-raises-awareness-of-gun-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/04\/09\/student-raises-awareness-of-gun-dangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Student raises awareness of gun dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"215\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"232\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/AnupBariaRedstreet232x180.jpg\"\/>A LONDON student is hoping to raise awareness of the dangers of guns after completing a short film on the subject.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>19-year-old Anup Baria, a student at the Ealing and West London College, took to the streets armed with a camera for the short film titled \u2018Red Street\u2019.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The film, which was shot in Wembley over a three-week period, has already received positive feedback.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>With gun crime rising to unprecedented levels across London, Anup said he hoped his short film would convey a serious message about the dangers of guns. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Speaking to The Asian Today, Anup revealed how the idea for the film came about. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He said: \u201cI was walking home one day and I saw all the roads blocked at Wembley Triangle and I heard few people saying that a man had been shot. The incident happened in my area and I couldn\u2019t stop thinking about it for couple of days. It was after this that I came up with the idea to make a short film on the dangers of guns.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cI want to reach out to as many people as possible with this film and really address the issue of guns. I want people to watch the short film and take something in.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Over seven people were involved in the making of the film which tells a fictional story. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The film was funded by Mediabox \u2013 a London-based organization that gives financial backing to youngsters to produce creative media projects. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Anup is now hoping to include \u2018Red Street\u2019 in a number of film festivals across the capital over the coming months. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A LONDON student is hoping to raise awareness of the dangers of guns after completing a short film on the subject. &#13; 19-year-old Anup Baria, a student at the Ealing and West London College, took to the streets armed with a camera for the short film titled \u2018Red Street\u2019. &#13; The film, which was shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}