An Award-Winning Unskippable Dark Comedy


"Fantastic...Impressive...Wonderfully inventive and emotionally compelling storytelling"
Robert Elswit - Academy Award ® winning Cinematographer of There Will Be Blood, Nightcrawler and recent Emmy Award winning Cinematographer of Ripley

"Excellent"
Alex Cox - Writer/Director
Repo Man, Sid & Nancy

"Absolutely brilliant. Very smart"
Ray Panthaki - BAFTA Breakthrough winning Actor/Director
Boiling Point, Marcella

Awards:

Picturehouse Create Festival 2025 - Audience Award Winner in Short Film Competition

Sunderland Shorts Film Festival 2025 - Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Reviews:

Take 2 Indie Review:
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
5 stars
By Mark Lakatos
OK/NOTOK is a brilliantly realized sci-fi short that benefits from sharp direction and excellent performances offering a breezy 12-minutes of contemplative entertainment.
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UK Film Review Podcast
By Chris Olson and Brian Penn
OK/NOTOK…It’s absolutely hilarious at times…It’s very perceptive…very cleverly done…it’s original, I’ve not seen anything like this before…It’s fresh…it felt tragic and funny at the same time and how they pulled that off is very impressive.
LISTEN TO THE SPOILER HEAVY REVIEW ON SPOTIFY HERE
LISTEN TO THE SPOILER FREE REVIEW CLIP HERE

Film Carnage
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
4 stars / 8 out of 10
OK/NOTOK is a great blend of sci-fi and rom-com, taking a very relevant issue and turning it into a charming comedy. The visual quality is extremely strong, particularly the lighting work, there’s a fantastic aesthetic which highlights its stage like setting. It’s funny, well shot and has a great cast...Sahota has fun with it.
READ THE LIGHT SPOILER REVIEW HERE

UK Film Review
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
4 stars
By Patrick Foley
OK/NOTOK is not your traditional look into a dark future.
READ THE FULL SPOILER HEAVY REVIEW HERE


PANAVISION® Official Instagram social media post on OK/NOTOK

BRITISH CINEMATOGRAPHER - Behind the Scenes - A Shot in the Dark - Cinematographer Linda Wu reveals how OK/NOTOK used a single locked-off camera position to tell a near-future story of tolerance and human connection.

LOGLINE:
OK/NOTOK is a genre-bending love story set in the very near future with a darkly comic edge. Loretta, a working-class British Asian woman, attempts to navigate a turbulent world, a new stranger in her life and unskippable adverts.

Screenings:

World Premiere - Leeds International Film Festival 2024
Played in Competition for Best British Short
9th November 2024

London Premiere - Picturehouse Create Festival 2025
Audience Award Winner in Short Film Competition
5th April 2025

International Premiere - Fantaspoa 2025
Played in Competition for Méliès d’argent
16th April 2025

French Premiere - Les Intergalactiques Film Festival
Played in Competition for Best Short Film
26th April 2025

Beeston Film Festival
26th April 2025

Unrestricted View Film Festival
Nominted for Best Cinematography
28th April 2025

Spanish Premiere - FantBilbao
Played in Panorama Competition for Best Short Film
3rd May 2025

Sunderland Shorts Film Festival
Winner of Best Sci-Fi & Fantasy
17th May 2025

Written & Directed By: Pardeep Sahota
Produced By: Luke Grech & Pardeep Sahota
Executive Produced By: Lorine Plagnol
Co-Executive Producers: Adham Hunt & Ian Roderick Gray
Starring: Bairavi Manoharan, Jay Taylor, Viraj Juneja & Marlon Thomas
Cinematography By: Linda Wu
Music By: Nine Inch Nails
Sound Design By: Decal Audio
Production Design By: Elle Mikkola
Poster Design By: Nagy Laszlo