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| |caption = Alka Sadat | |caption = Alka Sadat | ||
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| |birth_name = Roya Sadat | |||
| |birth_date = 1988 | |birth_date = 1988 | ||
| |birth_place = ], Afghanistan | |birth_place = ], Afghanistan | ||
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| |occupation = Film producer and director | |occupation = Film producer and director | ||
| ⚫ | |known_for = Movies ''Half Value Life'' (2008) and ''We Are Postmodern'' (2010), and establishing Roya Film House}} | ||
| |years_active = 2004 till date | |||
| ⚫ | '''Alka Sadat''' (born 1988) is an ] documentary and feature film producer, director and cameraman. She became famous with her first 25-minute film ''Half Value Life'', which highlights social injustice and crime; the film won several awards. She is the younger sister of ], the first Afghan woman film producer and director. The two sisters have collaborated in many film productions from 2004 and were instrumental in establishing the Roya Film House.<ref>{{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 March 2014|newspaper= The Huffington Post|accessdate=22 June 2016}}</ref> Both had participated in the "Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival", organized at the ], where 32 films from Afghanistan were featured. In 2013, she coordinated in holding the first Afghanistan International Women's Film Festival.<ref name=Afghan>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womensvoicesnow.org/interview-with-alka-sadat|title=Afghan Filmmaking on the Edge: Interview with Alka Sadat|date= 27 March 2011|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher= Womens Voices Now}}</ref> Her contribution to film making so far is in 15 documentaries and one short fiction feature film.<ref name=Page>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fidh.org/IMG/pdf/flyer_fest_film_herat.pdf|format=pdf|title=First International Women Film Festival-Herat|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher=International Federation for Human Rights }}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | |known_for = Movies ''Half Value Life'' (2008) |
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| ⚫ | '''Alka Sadat''' (born 1988) is an ] documentary and feature film producer, director and cameraman. She became famous with her first 25- |
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| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
| Alka Sadat was born in 1988 in ], Afghanistan<ref>, womensvoicesnow.org, Retrieved 7 June 2016</ref> at a time when the Taliban regime was in force. In view of the severe restrictions imposed by the Taliban on the freedom of woman in education and social life, her mother boldly decided to educate all her six daughters at home. Alka Sadat then started assisting her sister Roya Sadat as costume designer in making the fiction film ''Three Dots'', a 60-minute film which highlights tribulations of a widow trying to make a living in an atmosphere of drug peddling that prevailed in the country.<ref name=New>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nwmindia.org/images/articles_pdf/7_Report_on_the_7th_IAWRT_Asian_Women_s_Film_Festival_2011.pdf|format=pdf|title= Ways of Seeing: Rhetoric and Reality- Report on the 7 IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, Seminar and Exhibitions, India International Centre, New Delhi, March 5, 7 and 8, 2011|year=2011|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher=Network of Women in Media, India}}</ref> Her sister then advised her to make documentaries. As Alka Sadat had no experience in making the documentaries she went through a 14-day training programme conducted by the German Goethe Institute at Kabul before venturing to make documentaries.<ref name=Afghan/> | Alka Sadat was born in 1988 in ], Afghanistan<ref>, womensvoicesnow.org, Retrieved 7 June 2016</ref> at a time when the Taliban regime was in force. In view of the severe restrictions imposed by the Taliban on the freedom of woman in education and social life, her mother boldly decided to educate all her six daughters at home. Alka Sadat then started assisting her sister Roya Sadat as costume designer in making the fiction film ''Three Dots'', a 60-minute film which highlights tribulations of a widow trying to make a living in an atmosphere of drug peddling that prevailed in the country.<ref name=New>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nwmindia.org/images/articles_pdf/7_Report_on_the_7th_IAWRT_Asian_Women_s_Film_Festival_2011.pdf|format=pdf|title= Ways of Seeing: Rhetoric and Reality- Report on the 7 IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, Seminar and Exhibitions, India International Centre, New Delhi, March 5, 7 and 8, 2011|year=2011|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher=Network of Women in Media, India}}</ref> Her sister then advised her to make documentaries. As Alka Sadat had no experience in making the documentaries she went through a 14-day training programme conducted by the German Goethe Institute at Kabul before venturing to make documentaries.<ref name=Afghan/> | ||
| Her first 25-minute short documentary film titled ''Half-Value Life'' was made during 2008. The film highlights the role of Maria Bashir, the first women's rights activist. Bashir acts in her real life role of an Afghan woman public prosecutor from ] dealing with the underworld people involved in crime and drug peddling. Some of the scenes presented in the documentary relate to family battering and rape cases of child brides.<ref name=Document>{{Cite web|url=http://muslima.globalfundforwomen.org/content/half-value-life|title=Half-Value Life:A Documentary on |
Her first 25-minute short documentary film titled ''Half-Value Life'' was made during 2008. The film highlights the role of Maria Bashir, the first women's rights activist. Bashir acts in her real life role of an Afghan woman public prosecutor from ] dealing with the underworld people involved in crime and drug peddling. Some of the scenes presented in the documentary relate to family battering and rape cases of child brides.<ref name=Document>{{Cite web|url=http://muslima.globalfundforwomen.org/content/half-value-life|title=Half-Value Life:A Documentary on Afghanistan's Only Female Prosecutor|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher= International Museum of Women (MUSLIMA)}}</ref><ref name=Elmasry>{{Cite web|last= Elmasry | ||
| |first= Faiza |url=http://www.voanews.com/content/exhibit-challenges-stereotypes-of-muslim-women/1650929.html|title=Exhibit Challenges Stereotypes of Muslim Women|date= 29 April 2013|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher= Voice of America News}}</ref> This film won six awards at film festivals |
|first= Faiza |url=http://www.voanews.com/content/exhibit-challenges-stereotypes-of-muslim-women/1650929.html|title=Exhibit Challenges Stereotypes of Muslim Women|date= 29 April 2013|accessdate=7 June 2016|publisher= Voice of America News}}</ref> This film won six awards at film festivals. These are: Best Director at the Kabul International Film Festival (2008); International Young Talent Competition - Generation DOK, Afghanistan Film Festival (2008); Best Film, at the Egypt Film Festival in 2008; Best Film, Bilder vom Film festival in Germany in 2009; Public Liberties & Human Rights Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival held in 2011); and First Place, among documentaries at the "Women's Voices Now Film Festival" held in ] in 2011. Sadat produced a documentary film titled ''First Number'' for which she received the Afghan Peace Prize. For her next film ''We Are Post-modernist'' she wrote the script and directed and filmed the movie. She got the "Best Camera Work award" for this film at the Kabul Film Festival.{{cn|date=June 2016}} | ||
| ⚫ | During 2008–2009 she worked for the Pangea Foundation and produced ''A Woman Sings in the Desert'', a documentary film. This film got her the Best Director award at the Kabul Film Festival. | ||
| ⚫ | Sadat made documentary films during 2012 to 2013 for the United Nations Assistance Mission. These documentaries are: ''Afghanistan: Ten Years On'', ''The Elimination of Violence Against Women''; ''The Elimination of Violence Against Children''; and ''The Elimination of Violence Against Police''. She is also involved in making films on the "elite" ''Afghan Army commandos'' and on ''Afghanistan Night Story''.{{cn|date=June 2016}} | ||
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| ⚫ | Sadat made documentary films during 2012 to 2013 for the United Nations Assistance Mission. These documentaries are: ''Afghanistan: Ten Years On'', ''The Elimination of Violence Against Women''; ''The Elimination of Violence Against Children''; and ''The Elimination of Violence Against Police''. She is also involved in making films on the "elite" ''Afghan Army commandos'' and on |
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Alka Sadat | |
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| File:Alka Sadat .jpgAlka Sadat | |
| Born | 1988 Herat, Afghanistan |
| Occupation(s) | Film producer and director |
| Known for | Movies Half Value Life (2008) and We Are Postmodern (2010), and establishing Roya Film House |
Alka Sadat (born 1988) is an Afghan documentary and feature film producer, director and cameraman. She became famous with her first 25-minute film Half Value Life, which highlights social injustice and crime; the film won several awards. She is the younger sister of Roya Sadat, the first Afghan woman film producer and director. The two sisters have collaborated in many film productions from 2004 and were instrumental in establishing the Roya Film House. Both had participated in the "Muslim World: A Short-Film Festival", organized at the Los Angeles Film School, where 32 films from Afghanistan were featured. In 2013, she coordinated in holding the first Afghanistan International Women's Film Festival. Her contribution to film making so far is in 15 documentaries and one short fiction feature film.
Bibliography
Alka Sadat was born in 1988 in Herat, Afghanistan at a time when the Taliban regime was in force. In view of the severe restrictions imposed by the Taliban on the freedom of woman in education and social life, her mother boldly decided to educate all her six daughters at home. Alka Sadat then started assisting her sister Roya Sadat as costume designer in making the fiction film Three Dots, a 60-minute film which highlights tribulations of a widow trying to make a living in an atmosphere of drug peddling that prevailed in the country. Her sister then advised her to make documentaries. As Alka Sadat had no experience in making the documentaries she went through a 14-day training programme conducted by the German Goethe Institute at Kabul before venturing to make documentaries.
Her first 25-minute short documentary film titled Half-Value Life was made during 2008. The film highlights the role of Maria Bashir, the first women's rights activist. Bashir acts in her real life role of an Afghan woman public prosecutor from Herat province dealing with the underworld people involved in crime and drug peddling. Some of the scenes presented in the documentary relate to family battering and rape cases of child brides. This film won six awards at film festivals. These are: Best Director at the Kabul International Film Festival (2008); International Young Talent Competition - Generation DOK, Afghanistan Film Festival (2008); Best Film, at the Egypt Film Festival in 2008; Best Film, Bilder vom Film festival in Germany in 2009; Public Liberties & Human Rights Award at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival held in 2011); and First Place, among documentaries at the "Women's Voices Now Film Festival" held in Los Angeles in 2011. Sadat produced a documentary film titled First Number for which she received the Afghan Peace Prize. For her next film We Are Post-modernist she wrote the script and directed and filmed the movie. She got the "Best Camera Work award" for this film at the Kabul Film Festival.
During 2008–2009 she worked for the Pangea Foundation and produced A Woman Sings in the Desert, a documentary film. This film got her the Best Director award at the Kabul Film Festival.
Sadat made documentary films during 2012 to 2013 for the United Nations Assistance Mission. These documentaries are: Afghanistan: Ten Years On, The Elimination of Violence Against Women; The Elimination of Violence Against Children; and The Elimination of Violence Against Police. She is also involved in making films on the "elite" Afghan Army commandos and on Afghanistan Night Story.
References
- "Roya Sadat: 'She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy's name'". The Huffington Post. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- ^ "Afghan Filmmaking on the Edge: Interview with Alka Sadat". Womens Voices Now. 27 March 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- "First International Women Film Festival-Herat" (pdf). International Federation for Human Rights. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- Alka Sadat, womensvoicesnow.org, Retrieved 7 June 2016
- "Ways of Seeing: Rhetoric and Reality- Report on the 7 IAWRT Asian Women's Film Festival, Seminar and Exhibitions, India International Centre, New Delhi, March 5, 7 and 8, 2011" (pdf). Network of Women in Media, India. 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- "Half-Value Life:A Documentary on Afghanistan's Only Female Prosecutor". International Museum of Women (MUSLIMA). Retrieved 7 June 2016.
- Elmasry, Faiza (29 April 2013). "Exhibit Challenges Stereotypes of Muslim Women". Voice of America News. Retrieved 7 June 2016.