Maysoon Zayid Says Stand-Ups Are the Last Bastions of Free Speech

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<p>A comedian from New York who knows what’s wrong with the movie industry, Maysoon Zayid spent Locarno78 haranguing cinema executives about the kind of work being produced, and she joined us on Locarno Meets to do the same.</p><p>“The idea that diversity only applies to diverse audiences is a supremacist mindset” says the Palestinian-American comic, a disability rights advocate uncompromising in her critiques of how and why movies get made. In Locarno last year to speak at StepIn during Locarno Pro, Zayid’s many insights were a powerful and much-needed provocation on the first day of our industry activities.</p>