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Pakistan Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, who is among the creative leaders honoured for Variety’s 2022 Power of Women, is all set to step into Hollywood as she’s launching her drama and film production house.
Here’s everything we have gathered about Malala Yousafzai’s newly launched film production house:
Title
Titled as ‘Extracurricular’, Malala Yousafzai’s film production house has been partnered with Apple TV+.
Aim of Extracurricular
The team at ‘Extracurricular’, Malala Yousafzai said, aims to bring to the table “the voices of women of colour, and debut writers and Muslim directors and writers”.
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Genres
According to the entertainment website Variety, the agreement involves dramas, comedies, documentaries, animation, and children’s series.
Line-ups
Malala Yousafzai’s first production is a feature film adaptation of Elaine Hsieh Chou’s book Disorientation.
The second project is based on Asha Lemmie’s novel Fifty Words for Rain, about a woman’s search for acceptance in post-World War II Japan.
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