New Yorker Safiya Songhai is the winner of "Two Faiths," a film category of the “One Nation, Many Voices” Online
Film Contest, sponsored by Link TV and One Nation, a nonprofit
initiative that promotes tolerance, understanding and respect for
religious freedom among all Americans. She will receive $5,000 for her winning film, Ladylike, which shows "what happens when a scantily clad urbanite encounters her (much) more modest Muslim neighbor. Songhai is one of the only non-Muslims to win in one of the five film categories. Ladylike is her first film produced through her company Mpirefilms and has been distributed through AltCinema and screened internationally. It has received many accolades including Best Student Short at the 2007 Philadelphia International Film Festival and a finalist spot in the Short Films category at the 2007 All-American Film Festival.
According to a press release, Songhai has also earned a name for herself outside of filmmaking. In 2008 she was first runner up in the Miss Black USA 2008 pageant, which was founded in 1986 and is the number one source of scholarship funds for African American women.
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