Roya Sadat
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رویا سادات | |
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Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Herat, Afghanistan |
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Known for | Movies Three Dots and Playing The TAAR and A letter to the President, TV show Secrets of This House, Third line and establishing Roya Film House and International Women’s Film Festival Herat |
Website | [1]. |
Roya Sadat (
Biography
Roya Sadat was born in
Her fiction film Taar wa Zakhma meaning Playing The Taar screened at the 7th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival 2011 deals with the tribulations of a 17-year-old girl married to a much older man. It was also screened at Kabul's First Autumn Human Rights Film Festival and received large audience appreciation.[9][10] In her film productions she generally works as scriptwriter, director, and in many other roles including music.[9]
In 2007, Roya also worked and direct the first Afghan TV Drama for Afghan Television Tolo TV and produced popular soap opera called the Secrets of This House with 50 episodes related to the current life of people of her country.[9][10]
In 2003, she and her sister Alka Sadat established the first independent Afghan film company. In 2006, she pursued her studies at the Asian Film Academy in South Korea under a scholarship.[6] she married in 2011 her husband was literature to Kabul university cinema faculty and he also joined Roya Film House as a writer and cinematographer She credited with establishing the International Women's Film Festival in Afghanistan in 2013 as co-founder and president.[4][6] she directs 5 famous TV series Sadat was one of the jury members at the "Netpac award" for
Bibliography
- Graham, Mark A. (2010). Afghanistan in the Cinema. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-03527-2.
References
- ^ "Meet the 2018 International #WomenofCourage". United States Department of State. March 21, 2018. Archived from the original on March 22, 2018. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ^ Nili, Hadi (March 24, 2018). "نام رویا سادات در فهرست 'زنان شجاع' وزارت خارجه آمریکا". BBC Persian. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
- ^ 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 Nawa, Fariba (2007). "New Voices New Afghanistan". Aramco World. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ a b c d e f "Roya Sadat: 'She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy's name'". Huffington Post. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b c "International Jury". Roya Sadat. International Film Festival of Kerala 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b Graham 2010, p. 133.
- ^ a b c d "Ways Of Seeing: Rhetoric And Reality Report on the 7th IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, Seminar and Exhibitions India International Centre, New Delhi March 5, 7 and 8, 2011" (PDF). The Network of Women in Media, India. 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ a b Mohan, Reena (20 October 2011). "They question with their camera". The Hindu Businessline. Retrieved 25 June 2016.