Five female Arab filmmakers receive Netflix grant, helping bring their work to life
20 April 2022 |
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Netflix offers a one-time grant to five women producers and directors in the Arab world - from Tunisia, Lebanon and Morocco - to bring their fiction and non-fiction projects to life.
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