Producer of “Delhi Crime” joins Pakistan’s first Ghibli-style film, “The Glassworker,” in production.

Apoorva Bakshi, an Emmy-winning producer who worked on Netflix’s Delhi Crime, has joined the cast and crew of The Glassworker, Pakistan’s first-ever hand-drawn-style animated feature film.

Through her production business Awedacious Originals, the Delhi Crime producer will direct and produce the movie. The Glassworker is a truly remarkable project led by the talented trio of Usman, Mariam, and Khizer, along with a team of young artists in Pakistan who are sparking a creative revolution in South Asia through their exceptional work, she said, speechless at the sheer talent of the team creating the movie.

With structures in the movie mimicking those of Karachi’s megacity and characters dressed in the traditional Shalwar Kameez, Pakistan is the inspiration for the setting of The Glassworker.

The father-son team who own a world-class glass factory and find themselves caught up in a battle they don’t want to be a part of are the subjects of the Miyazaki-inspired film.

Usman Riaz, the director of The Glassworker, has long been a devotee of the animation style of Studio Ghibli. Riaz raised $116,000 from the public via a Kickstarter effort to support the project.

As a co-founder of Pakistan’s first hand-drawn animation firm, Mano Animation Studios in Karachi, Riaz also recruited new animators, half of whom are female.

Through Awedacious Originals, Bakshi is taking on more independently produced works, like the Pakistani film One Of A Kind by Iram Parveen Bilal. Last year, the live-action film was chosen for the Asian Project Market in Busan.