The first female "Star Wars" movie director says, "I'm ready for that challenge"
Salon“Sometimes holding up a mirror to society makes people uncomfortable,” says director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. “Every woman watching this can resonate with Diane's struggles as a single working mother, as well as a woman who was trying to make it in a man's world,” says Obaid-Chinoy. Diane's history has been interwoven with the history of the world — 1950s and '60s in Europe, '70s in New York City, completely different from the New York City you see today. Then a few years later, Fabiola, who's our producer, came to me and said, "Diane is ready to tell her story, and she wants you to be the one to do it." Every woman watching this can resonate with Diane's struggles as a single working mother as well as a woman who was trying to make it in a man's world, trying to set up a business at a time when women needed men to co-sign for something as little as a credit card.
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