Hassan Zee

As a child Zee was forbidden from watching cinema because his father believed movies were a bad influence on children.

[6] He also witnessed how his country’s transgender and intersex people, called “hijras”, were banned from having jobs and forced to beg to survive.

These experiences inspired Doctor Zee to tackle the issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality in his films.

[7][8] The theme of the film dealt with "the conflict between Old World immigrant customs and modern Western ways..."[9] Night of Henna focused on the problems of Pakistani expatriates who found it hard to adjust in American culture.

[12] His fourth film “Good Morning Pakistan”, concerned a young American’s journey back to Pakistan where he confronts the contradictory nature of a beautiful and ancient culture that's marred by economic, educational and gender inequality [13] His upcoming fifth film, "Ghost in San Francisco" is a supernatural thriller starring Felissa Rose, Dave Sheridan, and Kyle Lowder where a soldier comes home from Afghanistan to discover that his wife is having an affair with his best friend.