Four Floors in Raqqa
Four Floors in Raqqa
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· Drama · 101 pages
Status: Spec
Based on a true story, a headstrong woman braves bombs and execution in ISIS-occupied Raqqa to protect her neighborhood and the home she built with her siblings.
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Laila Ujayli and Zaina Ujayli
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Boston, Massachusetts
Drawing from her experiences as a Syrian-American, Laila is passionate about bringing Arab characters to the screen. She is a JD candidate at Harvard Law School and holds a master's in Film Aesthetics from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. She loves telling stories about stubborn female protagonists wrestling with thei...
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Los Angeles, California
Zaina is a current PhD candidate in American Studies & Ethnicity at USC where she studies Arab diaspora in the Americas, as well as Arab representation in American politics and film. She uses the lost and ignored stories she uncovers to write screenplays featuring stubborn female protagonists wrestling with their identities and their place in the w...
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