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Oscar Nominee Nisha Pahuja Joins Emma Thompson As EP Of ‘Mediha’, Award-Winning Doc About Yazidi Girl Who Survived ISIS Nightmare
Oscar-nominee Nisha Pahuja is joining Emma Thompson as an E.P. of 'Mediha,' the documentary about a Yazidi girl who survived ISIS captivity.
EXCLUSIVE: 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 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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