Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy shares her path from making docs to directing ‘Ms. Marvel’

The Business

KCRW

Tv & Film

4.6 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Twice Academy Award winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy directed two episodes of Disney’s limited series “Ms. Marvel.” She shares with Kim Masters her path from making intimate documentary shorts in her home country of Pakistan, to animated features, to “Ms. Marvel” – her first live-action, narrative fiction series. “I know what ‘Black Panther’ did for communities across the world. And this is exactly what ‘Ms. Marvel’ is going to do for South Asian communities,” says Obaid-Chinoy. The mini series portays a teenage, Pakistani-American superhero, and within its first week on Disney+, it received a 97% score – the best reviewed Marvel series and film production on Rotten Tomatoes, a record previously held by “Black Panther.” The filmmaker also talks about how the real life heroes she has depicted over the years in documentary form are tied to “Ms. Marvel.” “Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel is a superhero who … is very much in line with the other characters that I had been filming throughout my career,” she explains, adding she desires to continue telling important stories in the future. But first, Bob Chapek’s latest miscalculated decision may have cost Disney subscribers.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.
0:05.3	Director Charmine Obed Shanoi has won Oscars and Emmys for her documentary work
0:09.9	focusing on the persecution of women in her home country of Pakistan.
0:14.0	The Disney Plus series, Ms. Marvel, was her first time directing a scripted live-action show.
0:19.6	But if any of the guys on the crew thought she could be
0:22.2	told what to do, Obeyed Shanoi was ready. I think I made it quite clear in my first week that I've
0:27.9	built a career on telling men how they should behave around women. So even those that attempted
0:33.4	to try were quickly sort of told that that was not going to happen.
0:38.6	Charmine Obed Chanoi, who directed two episodes of the Miss Marvel series,
0:42.8	shares the ties that bind the first Muslim superhero in the Marvel universe
0:46.7	to the real-life heroes she's depicted over the years in documentary form.
0:51.4	But first we banter.
0:52.9	Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.
0:58.8	I am joined by my colleague in banter. Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, as usual, a lot
1:05.1	going on at Disney. This town will not let us rest. We talked before about the very, very abrupt firing of Peter Rice,
1:14.8	the head of television content. He was replaced by Dana Walden. More has been written and discussed
1:20.3	about that, including by me. It's very unusual, certainly in Hollywood, to fire someone. As I noted in a piece I did for the Hollywood
1:29.1	reporter, Jeffrey Kassenberg wasn't technically fired when he left in 1994, when Michael Eisner
1:36.4	threw him out of the company, basically. Bob Iger didn't fire Tom Staggs when he was pushed
1:42.2	out of the company. Bob Chappick didn't fire technically.
1:45.7	Jeff Morrell as head of corporate affairs.
1:48.5	He was allowed to say it wasn't a fit.
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