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'''Roya Sadat''' (born 1981) is an [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] film producer and director who, as the first woman director in the history of Afghan cinema, has ventured into making feature films and documentary on the theme of injustice and restrictions on women. Following the fall of the [[Taliban regime]] in the country her debut feature film was "''Three Dots''" which won the highest award at the Afghan Film Festival.{{Sfn|Liebersohn|2009|p=68}}{{Sfn|Graham|2010|p=142}}<ref name= Nagarajan>{{Cite news|last= Nagarajan| first= Saraswathy|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/interview-with-afghan-filmmaker-roya-sadat/article6701167.ece|title=Voice of the silenced|date=17 December 2014 |accessdate=6 June 2016|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref> In 2003, she along with her sister Alka Sadat established the Royal Film House |
'''Roya Sadat''' (born 1981) is an [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] film producer and director who, as the first woman director in the history of Afghan cinema, in the post [[Taliban regime]] has ventured into making feature films and documentary on the theme of injustice and restrictions on women. Following the fall of the [[Taliban regime]] in the country her debut feature film was "''Three Dots''" which won the highest award at the Afghan Film Festival.{{Sfn|Liebersohn|2009|p=68}}{{Sfn|Graham|2010|p=142}}<ref name= Nagarajan>{{Cite news|last= Nagarajan| first= Saraswathy|url=http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/interview-with-afghan-filmmaker-roya-sadat/article6701167.ece|title=Voice of the silenced|date=17 December 2014 |accessdate=6 June 2016|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref> In 2003, she along with her sister Alka Sadat established the Royal Film House. She has under this banner produced more than 30 documentaries and features films.<ref name= Nagarajan/><ref name=One>{{Cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roya-sadat-she-even-chang_b_4897033.html?section=india|title=Roya Sadat: “She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy’s name”|date=4 May 2014|accessdate=6 June 2016|newspaper= Huffingtonpost}}</ref><ref name=Data>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm7935080/bio|title=Alka Sadat |accessdate=6 June 2016|publisher=Internet Media Data Base}}</ref> She is now involved in producing television series titled ''Bahasht Khamosh''.<ref name=Jury/> |
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Roya Sadat | |
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| Born | Roya Sadat 1981 Herat, Afghanistan |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer and director |
| Known for | Movies ''Three Dots", "Osama", TV show "Secrets of This House and establishing Roya Film House |
Roya Sadat (born 1981) is an Afghan film producer and director who, as the first woman director in the history of Afghan cinema, in the post Taliban regime has ventured into making feature films and documentary on the theme of injustice and restrictions on women. Following the fall of the Taliban regime in the country her debut feature film was "Three Dots" which won the highest award at the Afghan Film Festival.[1][2][3] In 2003, she along with her sister Alka Sadat established the Royal Film House. She has under this banner produced more than 30 documentaries and features films.[3][4][5] She is now involved in producing television series titled Bahasht Khamosh.[6]
Biography
Roya Sadat was born in Herat, Afghanistan [2] in 1981, at the time of the Russian war.[7] She studied law and political science at the Herat University.[4] When she was very young at the time the Taliban ruled in Afghanistan, women's education was a taboo, she and her five sisters were educated at home by her mother.[5][3] She was an autodidact by educating herself by reading books authored by Syd Field in Farsi translated version.[2] She was very passionate about producing films and considering restrictive atmosphere during the Taliban regime in her country she started writing scripts for plays and movies.[4] In 1999, even during the Taliban regime, she wrote and directed a play for a theatre show for a group of Afghan women.[6] It was only after the Taliban regime came to an end in her country she started making films and her first feature film as a producer and director was "Three Dots" known in Afghan language Se noughta,[4][2] or Ellipsis. This film was made by her in a short span of less than two weeks in a digital video format. The film though not a quality prodcut still gave an exposure to the western audience on the status of women in Afghanistan.[7] Sadat had discovered Gul Afroz for the lead role in the film even though she had no formal training in acting. When Afroz was prevented by her husband and family members to act in the film she threatened to commit suicide but she eventually acted in the film.[2] This film received wide acclaim around the world.[6] On her film making she said: "In the past, women could not be what they wanted to be, only what men wanted them to be. Afghan women were living dead. I always has hope that change would come one day."[1]
For her documentary titled Osama, which preceded her first feature film, Siddiq Barmak gave her $2000 as payment and also engaged her to write scripts for two short films and also to work on Japanese television.[7]
In 2003, she along with her sister Alka Sadat, established the first independent Afghan film company. She pursued her studies at the Asian Film Academy in South Korea 2006 under a scholarship.[4]
Sadat is also credited with establishing the International Women’s Film Festival in Afghanistan in 2013 as co-founder and president.[3][4][5]
Sadat was one of the jury members at the "Netpac award" for Malayalam films screened in the Malayalam Cinema, held in 2014.[3]
References
- ^ a b Liebersohn 2009, p. 68.
- ^ a b c d e Graham 2010, p. 142.
- ^ a b c d e Nagarajan, Saraswathy (17 December 2014). "Voice of the silenced". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "Roya Sadat: "She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy's name"". Huffingtonpost. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "Alka Sadat". Internet Media Data Base. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "International Jury". Roya Sadat. International Film Festival of Kerala 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b c Graham 2010, p. 133.
Bibliography
- Graham, Mark A. (2010). Afghanistan in the Cinema. University of Illinois Press. pp. harv. ISBN 978-0-252-03527-2.
- Liebersohn, Aharon (2009). World Wide Agora. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4092-8477-2.
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