Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is about to finish shooting Casablanca, to accentuate the film's propaganda message in order to sway public opinion in favor of the country's intervention in the European war.
Jas is the story of a young, English-Iranian girl, and her unlikely meeting with a racist war veteran. It is a story of the desire to escape, and the impossibility of escaping oneself. Alice Trueman won the Red Rock Entertainment Film Competition 2016 to make this short film, which is currently in post-production.
The activities of the staff at The Junior Gazette, a children's weekly newspaper produced by a group of school pupils.
