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Writer/director Shaina Ghuraya jokes that she is a triple threat - she’s a wheelchair-user, Punjabi, and a woman, and she doesn’t shy away from tackling issues of disability, race, and gender in fierce films that compel us to rethink limiting beliefs and reimagine a more compassionate world. “When I was four, a person in my family said, ‘We should just leave her in a room and throw away the key.’”
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