マララさん、アップルＴＶ＋と番組制作で提携

【イスラマバードＡＦＰ＝時事】米アップルは8日、パキスタン出身の人権活動家でノーベル平和賞受賞者、マララ・ユスフザイさん（23）と、動画配信サービス「Apple　TV+」での番組制作で提携すると発表した。マララさんは、女性と子どもに焦点を当てたドラマやドキュメンタリーをプロデュースする。（写真はマララ・ユスフザイさん）
　アップルはこの中で、複数年にわたる契約はマララさんの「世界中の人々をインスパイアする」才能を存分に引き出す作品になると説明している。配信動画にはアニメや子ども向けシリーズも含まれるという。
　マララさんは発表で「ストーリーの力を信じています。さまざまなストーリーが家族のつながりを強め、友情を築き、社会にムーブメントを起こし、子どもたちに夢を与えることができるからです」としている。
　マララさんは１７歳だった２０１４年、インド出身の児童人権活動家カイラシュ・サトヤルティ氏と共にノーベル平和賞を受賞。昨年、英オックスフォード大学を卒業して以来、少女と女性向けのデジタル出版物を配信している他、自らのテレビ制作会社を設立している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/03/10-13:54）

Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Peace Prize as a teenager after surviving a Taliban assassination attempt, has signed a deal with Apple TV+ that will see her produce dramas and documentaries that focus on women and children.
The multi-year partnership would draw on her ability to inspire people around the world, the company said in a statement, adding that content would also include animation and children's series.
I'm grateful for the opportunity to support women, young people, writers, and artists in reflecting the world as they see it, the 23-year-old was quoted as saying.
Yousafzai earned the wrath of the Taliban as a 10-year-old in rural northwest Pakistan when she began campaigning for education rights for girls.
At the time, the Pakistani Taliban had gained a significant foothold in the Swat Valley, imposing a fundamentalist version of Islam on areas they controlled -- banning education for girls and employment for women.
Yousafzai drew international attention with a series of blogs and articles she wrote about everyday life and hopes for a better future, but her fame incensed the Taliban, whose leadership ordered her murder.
In October 2012, a Taliban assassin shot the then-15-year-old as she rode home on a bus from school. The bullet struck near her left eye, went through her neck and lodged in her shoulder.
She recovered after months of treatment at home and abroad before co-writing a best-selling memoir titled I am Malala, which drew even more international attention.
Yousafzai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize as a 17-year-old in 2014, sharing the award with Kailash Satyarthi, a children's rights activist from India.
She graduated from Britain's Oxford University last year and has since created a digital publication for girls and women, and formed her own TV production company.
I believe in the power of stories to bring families together, forge friendships, build movements, and inspire children to dream, she was quoted as saying in Monday's statement.