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After traveling the festival circuit and then released overseas in 2009, 'Desert Flower' is finally being released in the United States in early 2011 through National Geographic Cinema Ventures.
'Desert Flower' follows the true Cinderella-like journey of Waris Dirie, who escaped Somalia at the age of 13 and spent her adolescence as a maid in her country's London embassy. A regime change forces her onto the streets of London, but she is discovered by a famous fashion photographer, and this scared, homeless runaway evolves into a glamorous runway superstar. Her beauty and courage open doors to an exciting career, but her life is even more transformed by her tenacity to fight against the poverty and cultural traditions that earlier had forced her to run away from her home and family. Her work resulted in her being named United Nations special ambassador for women's rights in Africa in 1997.
Directed by Sherry Horman, the film stars Ethiopian model Liya Kebede as Waris Diries, Anthony Mackie, Sally Hawkins, Juliet Stevenson and Timothy Spall.
The Waris Diries book 'Desert Flower' has became a worldwide bestseller with more than 11 million sold copies.
Dirie has graced the covers of Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar and V magazines and whose past film credits include 'Lord of War' and 'The Good Shepherd.'
Mackie is currently on the big screen in Tanya Hamilton's debut film, 'Night Catches Us,' with Kerry Washington.
Desert Flower (Wüstenblume) - Trailer English from MajesticFilm on Vimeo.