10x10 Production Update: November 22, 2011

Hi, I'm Richard Robbins with a 10 x 10 update from the Los Angeles Office; we have a few exciting bits of news in our first video update. Relating to our writers, we have three new writers who have joined the project; Marie Arana, Aminatta Forna and Mona Eltahawy for the countries of Peru, Egypt and Sierra Leone. Marie Arana is a novelist; she spent many years as the Editor of the Washington Post Book Review and she's a phenomenal writer, a Peruvian American. We couldn't be more excited to have her joining us for the Peru Chapter. Aminatta Forna from Sierra Leone has written a memoir and two novels that have caused quite a stir in the literary world and Sierra Leone is an incredibly compelling and important country in the story of girl's education and so it's going to be a really exciting adventure to have her writing the Sierra Leone chapter for the film. And lastly, Mon Eltahawy in Egypt; Mona is primarily a journalist and a commentator so she's working a little bit outside of her comfort zone in working with us but we're just so impressed with her voice, her outspoken stance on issues in the Middle East. She's Egyptian American, as you might imagine based in New York and she's actually on her way to Egypt right now, as we speak. We'll be joined by Jenna Millman from our team in a couple days in Egypt and starting to get to work on a profile of a remarkable young woman in Egypt that we are really excited to be bringing to you. So that's all for now, more soon.