About this Event
KARACHI - BEACH CHAIN FESTIVAL DAY!
Get ready for an awesome Day & Night Festival at the Arts Council of Paksitan!
HOSTED BY: PAKISTAN FILM ACTOR MODEL NETWORK
BEACH CHAIN Festival is a celebration—a moment where the hip and youthful community of Karachi pauses its daily routine to focus on new postive connections through the shared experience enjoying music, food, arts & cinema.
MAY 2, 2026 we celebrate Paksitan's historic progress across the global stage by creating a new positive historical moment with our massive, full-day of events!
- 10:00AM -11AM IN CROWD PHOTO OPPS & NETWORKING AT LOBBY CAFE *
From Tariq Road trends to Clifton cool—experience the ultimate Karachi crossover where the whole city meets to be the first to expereince the highly anticapted screening!
Hosted by Pakistan Film Actor Network.
This is the organized dedicated time for videographers, film crew profssionals, Actors, Models & Artist aspiring for work, collabs and industry connections to converge and make aquaintences. Film enthusiasts and general public also welcomed.
- 11:00AM - SPECIAL FIRST SHOWING "BEACH CHAIN"
Serving Free popcorn in Auditorium 1 for the first Exclusive Special Screening of Karachi's home grown talent, The Real MATHIRA!
*This event Marks her first ever global cross over movie! And venture into Action/Thriller, HORROR genre! Mathira is opening the doors for all Karachi talent to get discovered with this venture.
This is so much more then a regular trip to the cinema which is a mere transaction: you buy a ticket, watch a film, and leave. We've added multiple showtimes and with multipe specialty food vendors avilable at the ready, we’ve transformed our super unique screening into a destination. At our festival the social interaction is just as important as the screen and we encourage "dwelling"—people hanging out between showtimes, discussing what they just saw, and eating together. This is the "cultural glue" behind BEACH CHAIN FESTIVAL DAY!
- 12-2PM. FAN ART CONTEST + PHOTO OPS & SOCIAL MIXER AT LOBBY !
Theme for our 2ND social gatheirng is;
FAN ART CONTEST! $27,000 Pakistani Rupees in PRIZES !
CONTEST RULES: Sign Up by obtaining a RSVP ticket via Check out. Submissions are now open untill April 24th.
Submit your graphic art via email [email protected] with your name and social contacts for a chance to win a cash prize! Make sure you label which category in Subject. Also to be elgible, all submissions must Post & Share the original art on instagram/ social media and tag! @BEACHCHAIN We will reshare selected email and social submissions. CATEGORY Winners will be anounced across all platforms MAY 2 evening!
-BRING YOUR ART TO THE SCREENING TO SHOW OFF!
Assignment deadlines can wait! Join the brightest minds from IBA to Szabist for a day of pure cinematic 'masti'!"
-College Students, young profesionals welcome!
- 2:PM 2ND SHOWING OF "BEACH CHAIN "
Auditorium 1 for the Exclusive Special Screening of Karachi's home grown talent, The Real MATHIRA'!
- 4-5PM IN - CROWD, PHOTO OPS & SOCIAL MIXER AT LOBBY
The corporate hustlers, Dancers and Socialites looking for a weekend escape, Glitz and glam—Karachi’s rising stars are clocking out and checking in for the city’s biggest vibe!"
Need a good date idea? Single lookign to mingle? The search for the perfect "Rishta" (or just a great conversation. "Skip the social apps and find your 'Humsafar' in the snack line in person! It’s time for sparks to fly under the Karachi lights!"
- 5:30 PM * CURTAIN CALL: FINAL SHOWING OF "BEACH CHAIN"
The grace, the wisdom, and the legacy of the city : "Experience Karachi’s timeless elegance. A curated time & space for our distinguished citizens to enjoy the city's culture in style!
Various food trucks (dessert, lunch & drinks), music, and a super fun social gathering! Chill out, meet new people, and enjoy the vibes under the sun. Don’t miss out on Karachi’s coolest in-person event of the spring season!
BEACH CHAIN, the cult classic Horror, Thriller, Mystery film has one of the greatest all star casts ever assembled... Starring: Music legend, MIKABEN. Reality TV Star, HOOPZ. Paksitani #1 controversial figure, MATHIRA! Pr*son Bae, Jeremy Meeks. Mr. India winner, Aryan Vaid! Jamacian box office actor Paul Campbell, Queen of Radio Philly, Mia Mendez, Hip Hop artist Gill Graff, Comedy legend Sejoe, MTV Reality star Gabriel Wai, Marleana Wells, Tom Izon, Rajan Gupta & MANY MORE!
All making their big screen debut to the Pakastani people!
GLOBAL REPRESENTATION!
BEACH CHAIN IS THE WORLD CUP PRE-GAME!
FAN ART CONTEST!
BEACH CHAIN team is looking for the best Paksitan has to offer! We are providing a fun and exciting skills challenge to the vibrant Karachi art community.
Submissions should feature BEACH CHAIN THEME along with a rich blend of styles from, Pakistani-style comic art merging vibrant pop art aesthetics, traditional truck art, contemporary illustration that create a distinct, culturally rooted visual identity, Urdu-centric designs like traditional motifs like floral patterns, Mughal-influenced designs, hand-painted posters to modern or stylized illustrations like the Japense manga style, "space grunge" of worn machinery, sharp-lined Imperial aesthetics, and dramatic, romantic, or epic character compositions.
AWARD CASH PRIZE CATEGORIES
- BEST OVERALL "BEACH CHAIN" ART
- BEST "MATHIRA" BEACH CHAIN ART
- BEST "HOOPZ" BEACH CHAIN ART
- BEST "MIKABEN" BEACH CHAIN ART
Honorable mentions will be shared and artists tagged via socials ona rotating yearly basis.
Rules
- Entries must be original art (drawings, painting, digital art, collage, and sculpture); not photo-manipulated, AI-generated, or photography pieces. Scans, photos of traditional art, and digital works will be accepted online.
- Works need to be based on BEACH CHAIN, (charcaters, theme, setting, chains , props etc).
- The person entering the piece must be the person who created the piece. No tracing or recoloring of another person's art..
- Please no nudity or profanity.
- Only completed works are allowed to be entered. Sketches are allowed as long as they are refined.
How to Enter
- All entries must be submitted online via email [email protected] and must be received from now till 11:00pm on close day.
- All entries Submissions must post on social a photo of the art and tag via Instagram @BEACHCHAIN (other socials same thing).
- Entrants are expected to be present and attend BEACH CHAIN DAY. Winners will be announced during the final screening's opening preview.
Use the form below to enter online and submit digital file. Please make a separate submission for each entry.
Entries submitted will need the following information included:
- Your preferred name
- Your artist handle/nickname, and statement behind the vision (optional)
- Social media link or website (limit one, optional)
- Your email address
- The title of your entry
- Which categories (up to two) under which you wish to submit your entry
Please email [email protected] for any questions & submission.
Who remembers when Mathira went viral across all major tabloaids and blogs in Pakistan when she shared excluvie BTS photos while filming BEACH CHAIN!
The result was a uproar of anticpation that crashed the internet from Pakistan to USA!
The highly anticpated face off between Mathira and Hoopz was born!
HOOPZ! The American Urban Pop Culture Queen of TV, Tabloids and print is often cited as America's first ever tv reality star from her groundbreaking appearance on VH1 Flavor of Love. The bombshell beauty has been romanticaly linked with Hollywood's biggest celebrity, Shaq.
Hoopz now brings her dynamic skill set to the big screen making her Big screen debut in Action/Thriller Horror genre. Also her first time ever a part of a global film intorducing herself to PAKSITAN!
BEACH CHAIN also stars ARYAN VAID! 2x MR. INDIA winner! He is one of Bollywoods most respected actors of all time and he does not dissapoint in his role as Cage, a father and husband desprately trying to make it back home to his family. He advocates for all Indian and Pakistani people with his most fiery role of his career as he stands directly opposed former Pr*son inmate turned famous Actor, Jeremy Meeks!
Meeks is an American fashion model, actor. A former member of the Crips street gang, Meeks was arrested during a gang sweep. Afterward, police posted his mugshot on Facebook, which went viral..hes since become a hollywood box office actor. This marks jeremy's first role in a thriller/action horror film.
MIKABEN is the main lead of BEACH CHAIN and this marks his big screen debut. He is one of the most influential and famos musicians across Haiti & the African diaspora. MIkaben acting is on full display with numerous fight scenes where he did his own stunts !
SEJOE, one of Haitis King's of Comedy marks his big screen debut as a leading roles of the film. This also marks the follow up of the dynamic collaboration history betwen Sejoe and Award Winning visonary Ralph A. World! The first project together resulted in one of the greatest Hatian stand up specials ever! And now with the introduction of BEACH CHAIN thier historic unionship continues on the path similar paths of industry giants like Denzel & Spike or Michael & Coogler.
MIA MENDEZ, one of the Queen 's of Philadlpehia radio, and star actor makes her big screen horror debut in BEACH CHAIN! The Best Acrress winner, showcases her most powerful perofmance yet in her role as Canela, the only pregnant woman trapped on the beach!
FOOD TRUCKS, COFEE & SOCIAL GATHERING
SPECIAL SCREENINGS IN THE LUXURY AUDITORIUM 1: PAKISTANI OF ARTS COUNCIL
*Special Thank you to the Pakistani of Arts Council staff and managment.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi, Kiyani Road, Karachi, Pakistan
USD 0.00 to USD 25.00
