Film Lives: Shaheen Baig + My Beautiful Laundrette
Film Lives: Shaheen Baig + My Beautiful Laundrette
Tuesday 12th May, 2026
Dir: Stephen Frears
UK, 1985
98 mins
Cert: 15
Doors: 17:15
Event Starts: 17:30
Content warnings: Violence, Racism and racial slurs
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Shaheen Baig is back in Brum to shed light on the invisible magic of casting.
Award-winning casting director Shaheen Baig was most recently in Birmingham for the premiere of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man. Having grown up in Erdington, it was a bit of a full circle moment.
For Flatpack Festival Baig will share insights into her journey, from starting out as a video trainee at community organisation Wide Angle to picking up an Emmy for her work on Adolescence. She'll also talk about the process behind one of her upcoming projects, Clio Barnard’s I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, made with a local cast in Birmingham.
This event is the first in a new season from Flatpack called Film Lives. Each month a special guest will reflect on their path and pick a film that is meaningful to them. Shaheen Baig will be treating us to the ground-breaking British drama My Beautiful Laundrette (dir: Stephen Frears, 1985), written by Hanif Kureishi and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke.
Film Lives has been supported by West Midlands Combined Authority.
