{"id":18641,"date":"2010-10-29T03:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T03:10:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-29T03:10:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T03:10:25","slug":"the-art-of-collaboration-mira-nairs-maisha-film-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=18641","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Collaboration: Mira Nair\u2019s Maisha Film Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2004, the Uganda-based Maisha filmmaker program has taught East Africans the art of filmmaking and this year DFI began a collaboration to send Qataris to director Mira Nair&#8217;s self-proclaimed \u201cbootcamp\u201d filmmaker labs. Today, we screened some of these short films, including the one that won best screenplay at the Maisha workshop \u2013 Niam Etany&#8217;s \u201csuper, full\u201d. 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