Just a few months after The Insult’s Oscar nomination in the Best Foreign Film category, history has been made again for Lebanese cinema with Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaüm earning the Jury Prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, following a 15-minute standing ovation during its premiere a couple days before.

Ghada Chehaibar is the CEO and creative director of Purple Advertising. The ambitious woman behind the establishment of this independent Beirut-based boutique agency opens up with utmost candor through this informal questionnaire.