Nobel Prize laureate Malala promotes 'The Last of the Sea Woman' documentary at TIFF

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Nobel Prize laureate Malala promotes 'The Last of the Sea Woman' documentary at TIFF  Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai walks the red carpet of the world premiere of "The Last of the Sea Women" at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).  The documentary film is the first project of Extracurricular, Malala's production company, and tells the story of the Haenyeo, a community of South Korean fisherwomen.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe  Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net    Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion    Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital    Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein   #TheManilaTimes  #worldnews  #tiff

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00:00I want to be able to share stories of women and girls and I want to bring women directors

00:17and storytellers forward and this production company is that opportunity and I'm looking

00:21forward to working with more incredible women and girls.

00:25Sue Kim, this amazing director, had come across these incredible women in South Korea and

00:31she wanted to tell us the story of one of the few matriarchal societies in the world

00:36where women can stay under the ocean for two to three minutes and they are so inspiring,

00:43so caring and they give us a message of shared humanity and they care about each other, they're

00:49so supportive and I learned so much from them and they decide to become activists at the

00:56age of 80 and 90 and I've been an activist for a very long time in my life and what I

01:03learned from them is you never give up, you can be an activist at any age, if you know

01:07that there are issues impacting your lives you have to speak up so I could connect with

01:12them in so many ways including with their activism.

01:16And basically what happened is on one of my trips I found out that they were the last

01:20generation of the Henyo because there were no younger women coming after them and that

01:24is when I decided no matter what to tell their story and make sure it's documented so that

01:29the world could know them even if they're no longer here in 10, 20 years.

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