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| - Sanaa was born in Tangier, Morocco. Her father was the late Moroccan painter and author Mohammed Hamri. She won a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she studied theatre. She studied her junior year of college in Paris, graduated in 1996, and then moved to Manhattan. With dreams of becoming and actress, Sanaa struggled through auditions and unemployment before she decided to try directing. Sanaa taught herself to use an Avid editing machine in 2000 and has never taken a filmmaking course. Realizing she had a talent for putting images together to tell a story, Sanaa began making videos and approaching the music industry.
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| - Sanaa was born in Tangier, Morocco. Her father was the late Moroccan painter and author Mohammed Hamri. She won a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she studied theatre. She studied her junior year of college in Paris, graduated in 1996, and then moved to Manhattan. With dreams of becoming and actress, Sanaa struggled through auditions and unemployment before she decided to try directing. Sanaa taught herself to use an Avid editing machine in 2000 and has never taken a filmmaking course. Realizing she had a talent for putting images together to tell a story, Sanaa began making videos and approaching the music industry. Malik Hassan Sayeed, a cinematographer and video producer, was impressed by one of her early videos, and showed it to Mariah Carey, who subsequently hired Sanaa to direct her video. Sayeed also gave Sanaa her first editing job for a reggae - hip hop fusion group called Born Jamericans.
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