Norah Shapiro
About
Norah Shapiro is a Minneapolis-based filmmaker who left a decade-long career as a public defender to pursue documentary filmmaking, and hasn’t looked back since. Her first feature film MISS TIBET: BEAUTY IN EXILE (2014) premiered at the DOC NYC Film Festival. The film received the “Best Minnesota Made Feature Documentary” at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival, and screened at SF DOCFEST, Asian American International Film Festival and others around the globe. Norah is also currently producing a new documentary about the recently solved case of Jacob Wetterling, a young Minnesota boy who was abducted 27 years ago.
Time for Ilhan
Ilhan Omar, a young, hijab-wearing, Somali refugee mother of three, takes on two formidable opponents in a highly contested race for a seat in the Minnesota State Legislature. If successful, she will become the first Muslim Somali woman lawmaker in the United States. An intimate, behind-the-scenes view into the life of one of America’s brightest rising political stars.