Hassan Zee
Pakistani-American film director
Hassan "Doctor" Zee is a Pakistani-American film director.
Early life
Zee grew up in Chakwal, a small village in Punjab, Pakistan. as one of seven brothers and sisters His father was in the military and this fact required the family to move often to different cities. As a child Zee was forbidden from watching cinema because his father believed movies were a bad influence on children.
He received his early education from Jinnah Public School, Chakwal. He got his medical doctor degree at Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan.
At the age of 26, Zee earned his medical doctorate degree and did his residency in a burn unit at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences. He cared for women who were victims of bride burning the archaic practice used as a form of punishment against women who failed to provide sufficient dowry to their in-laws after marriage or fail to provide offspring. He also witnessed how his country’s transgender and intersex people, called "hijras", were banned from having jobs and forced to beg to survive. These experiences inspired Zee to tackle the issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality in his films.
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