Mai Masri is a Palestinian filmmaker who studied film at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University.. She directed and produced several films that were screened worldwide and won over 80 international awards. She founded Nour Productions in 1995 with her late husband, filmmaker Jean Chamoun. Her first feature film, 3000 Nights (2015) had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival and was screened in several international film festivals where it won 24 awards and was selected to represent Jordan at the 2017 Oscar Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film and Palestine at the Golden Globes.