already, activist, author, Nobel laureate and Oxford graduate Malala Yousafzai joins Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg in a multi-year deal with Apple TV+. As part of their show collaboration, under Yousafzai’s new production banner “Extracurricular Activities”, she plans to collaborate with the streaming giant on a series of dramas, comedies, documentaries and animated series. Now, after months of anticipation, her first film and television work has finally been revealed.
According to
EXCLUSIVE Variety, it contains Featured adaptation of Disorientation , Elaine Hsieh Chou’s stirring satire of Asian Americans in grad school, courtesy of Hyperobject Industries produced by Adam McKay of Don’t Look Up; a based on Fifty Words in the Rain scripted series, Asha Lemmie’s coming-of-age epic that follows a mixed-race woman seeking acceptance in the post – WWII Japan; Bodie Award nominee Sue Kim’s documentary about the elderly fishermen community in the Haenyeo community of Jeju Island, South Korea, is currently in production.
