Sanaa Hamri is a Moroccan-American film, television, and music video director.
18 Facts About Sanaa Hamri
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Sanaa Hamri has directed music videos for musicians including Prince, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, and Sting.
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Sanaa Hamri is known for her 2010 film Just Wright and the 2008 movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, as well as for her music video for the Nicki Minaj song "Super Bass".
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Sanaa Hamri's father came from the town of Jajouka and was a painter and author.
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Sanaa Hamri attended the American School of Tangier, where her mother worked.
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The school was not gender balanced: at one point, Sanaa Hamri was the only girl on the soccer team and eventually, the sole female student enrolled at her high school.
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In 1992, Sanaa Hamri moved to the United States after receiving a scholarship to attend Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
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Sanaa Hamri spent her junior year of college in Paris, and in 1996 graduated from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Sanaa Hamri struggled through auditions and unemployment before she decided to try working in the production side of the business.
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Sanaa Hamri taught herself filmmaking skills firsthand, such as how to use an avid editing machine.
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Sanaa Hamri then moved from seeking an acting career to making videos and was eventually noticed by cinematographer, Malik Hassan Sayeed.
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Sanaa Hamri then began to take on more work as she became better known.
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Sanaa Hamri has directed videos for Nicki Minaj, Lenny Kravitz, Joss Stone, Sting, Common, Raven-Symone, Eric Benet, Amel Larrieux, Jay-Z, A*Teens, and Christina Aguilera.
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Sanaa Hamri directed the music video for Greyson Chance's "Waiting Outside The Lines".
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Sanaa Hamri went on to direct Just Wright with Queen Latifah and Common, which was released on May 14,2010.
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Sanaa Hamri directed Mariah Carey's live concert documentary, The Adventures of Mimi, and Prince's The Art of Musicology and Live at the Aladdin Las Vegas.
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Sanaa Hamri is multi-lingual as she speaks English, French, Spanish, and a Moroccan dialect growing up.
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In 2000, Hamri had a daughter, Laila Hamri Fletcher, whose father is Loyst P Fletcher, a Los Angeles attorney.