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Egypt’s Mayye Zayed on ‘Lift Like a Girl’ About an Ambitious Teenage Female Weightlifter Trained on the Street
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentEgyptian director Mayye Zayed, who studied film and documaking at Wellesley and MIT, spent four years following the main character of her female empowerment doc, “Lift Like a Girl,” Zebiba (which means “raisin” in Arabic), who at age nine entered former Olympic athlete Captain Ramadan’s weightlifting training camp on a vacant Alexandria lot. After world-premiering in Toronto and screening at Doc NYC and Dok Leipzig – where it received the Golden Dove award and qualification for submission to compete for the 2021 Academy Award for Documentary Feature – “Lift Like a Girl” is now having its Arabic premiere at the Cairo International Film Festival.
