TIFF 2020 Women Directors: Meet Mayye Zayed – “Lift Like a Girl”

Mayye Zayed is an Egyptian filmmaker, director, producer, director of photography, and editor, and the founder of Cléo Media. She is the recipient of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers Fellowship for 2017 and 2019. In 2013, she co-directed, co-produced, and co-shot the collaborative feature “The Mice Room.” In 2016 she made the award-winning short “A…

Mayye Zayed is an Egyptian filmmaker, director, producer, director of photography, and editor, and the founder of Cléo Media. She is the recipient of Film Independent’s Global Media Makers Fellowship for 2017 and 2019. In 2013, she co-directed, co-produced, and co-shot the collaborative feature “The Mice Room.” In 2016 she made the award-winning short “A…