Maji-da Abdi completed her primary and most of her secondary education in Kenya.
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Maji-da Abdi felt different from most of her classmates, who wanted to obtain jobs on Wall Street, and finished a program in French literature.
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Maji-da Abdi was travelling in Nepal in the 1990s when she met Bernardo Bertolucci, who was in the process of filming Little Buddha.
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Maji-da Abdi decided to become an intern on the set.
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Maji-da Abdi worked with Abderrahmane Sissako as a producer and costume designer on his films Waiting for Happiness and Bamako.
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Maji-da Abdi served on the jury for short films and Cinefondation at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
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Maji-da Abdi is concerned with water resource issues as well as the environment more generally.
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In 2010, Maji-da Abdi created the film festival Images That Matter, the first festival dedicated to Ethiopian short films.
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Maji-da Abdi had planned to create such a festival for several years but eventually received funding from the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Olivier Poivre d'Arvor.
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At the first festival, Maji-da Abdi created workshops to help young filmmakers get trained.
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Maji-da Abdi said that six years prior to the festival, Ethiopian cinema lagged behind most countries but the level of production was increasing.