Davis Guggenheim, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, decided to film a movie about the teenage activists Malala Yousafzai. A documentary created by the filmmaker which he titled "He Named Me Malala" is already scheduled to open in New Orleans theaters on Friday, Oct. 9.
The filmmaker was inspired by Malala's life like the other movies that he already made. He treats it as a greatest privilege to his own journey upon creating the documentary.
Guggenheim was challenged to tell a story again in a way that people may not think that they already know the flow. He stated that the movie is not all about a girl who won a Nobel Peace Prize as well as a girl that was shot on a school bus.
Guggenheim spent days with Yousafzhai family in Jordan to know them more and to dig in the deepest and real story of Malala and her family.
The filmmaker is a father of three children - a boy and two girls - was moved by what he had observed during his stay with Malala's family.
"Look at what's happening now in the newspaper," Guggenheim said. "There's a picture of this little boy drowned in the sea, and turn the page, millions of immigrants coming into Hungary, turn the page -- I don't want to think about it. I don't want to go there. I think it's scary to really see the world as it is. That's why this movie is so important to me. It's very hopeful. It's very heroic. It's something you can bring your kids to. It's very funny. And it's a story of someone who decided to step in and how it's changed her life," Guggenheim states.
Malala Yousafzai, is a teenage activist that inspired many people with the story of her life. At her age of 14, while she was on her way to school she was ambushed and shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in order to silence her advocacy of education for girls in the region of Pakistan. She won a Nobel Peace Prize last year.
