Oscar Nominee Nisha Pahuja Joins Emma Thompson As EP Of ‘Mediha’, Award-Winning Doc About Yazidi Girl Who Survived ISIS Nightmare
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Nisha Pahuja has signed on as an executive producer of Mediha, the Oscar-contending film about a Yazidi girl who was seized by ISIS and sold into slavery.
Pahuja, who earned an Oscar nomination earlier this year for To Kill a Tiger, joins fellow EPs Emma Thompson, Rick Dugdale, Joyce Pierpoline, Jason Loftus, and Håkan Karlsson on the project.
The documentary directed by Hasan Oswald premiered at DOC NYC last year, winning the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Documentary. It has gone on to screen at festivals around the world, earning more than a dozen prizes.
The titular Mediha was only 9 years old when ISIS radicals kidnapped her in Northern Iraq in 2014. The Islamist group, which had declared its intent to establish a caliphate, directed particular ferocity at Yazidis like Mediha, members of an ethnic and religious minority that occupies areas within Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria.
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