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          Misan Sagay: It's about Dido Elizabeth Belle, a mixed race girl who was raised by her Great Uncle Lord Mansfield in the 18th Century.

        1. In this piece, Iwowo reflects on the conversation with this filmmaker, via the themes: The business of screenwriting; research in screenwriting.
        2. Misan Sagay is a screenwriter whose credits include The Secret Laughter of Women, starring Colin Firth, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, starring Halle Berry.
        3. Even as a thriving emergency room doctor, Misan Sagay heard the rumblings of a deeper dream.
        4. A former surgeon who gave up a medical career for the movie industry, researching and writing historical stories is her passion.

          5. Misan Sagay is a screenwriter whose credits include The Secret Laughter of Women, starring Colin Firth, and Their Eyes Were Watching God, starring Halle Berry.!

          Misan Sagay

          British-Nigerian screenwriter

          Misan Sagay is a British-Nigerian screenwriter, best known for the 2013 film Belle.

          Biography

          Sagay was born in Nigeria and at the age of five moved with her parents to England.[1] She graduated from St Andrews University with a first-class Honours degree[2] in biochemistry, then trained as a doctor at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London.[citation needed]

          After qualifying as a doctor, she specialised in PaediatricHaematology and Critical Care and at the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Westminster Children's Hospital.

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          Career

          A former emergency room doctor, Sagay made her writing debut with the 1999 film The Secret Laughter of Women on which she was a writer and producer.[3] She co-wrote the teleplay for the Oprah-produced television movie Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005), based on the 1937 novel of the same name by Zora Neale Hurston.

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