After a three month shoot across the breadth of the country, this year’s showpiece of the football season, the FA Cup Final, saw the airing of one of Tareq’s biggest projects and one of his more challenging films to date: “To The Dreamers”.

The two-minute film was specifically created for the 2013 Final and was only broadcast once on television, in a Superbowl-like full slot over one ad break, just before kick-off. It also found an audience in the 90,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium when it was aired at half-time. In conjunction with the best of the thousands of images submitted to Budweiser’s #tothedream project, Tareq visited an amazing array of grounds, from Man City’s Eastlands Stadium to Esh Winning FC’s West Terrace ground, complimenting their images with his own footage and photography that is beautiful, poignant and at times hilarious… all the emotion and feelings that the 132 year-old competition encompasses.

Matched to Kenneth Cranham’s poetic voiceover, the final result is a wonderfully stirring film that does justice to the old adage about “the magic of the FA Cup”, fully showcasing Tareq’s obvious talent of finding beautiful compelling imagery.

Visit the Nice Shirt blog to find Tareq and producer James’ production diary from the epic shoot featuring pies, MDMA and tattooed 15 year-olds: www.niceshirtfilms.blogspot.com
More of Tareq’s work can be found here: www.niceshirtfilms.com/director/tareq-kubaisi/