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| |known_for = Movies ''Half Value Life'' (2008) and ''We Are Postmodern'' (2010), and establishing Roya Film House}} | |known_for = Movies ''Half Value Life'' (2008) and ''We Are Postmodern'' (2010), and establishing Roya Film House}} | ||
| '''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> | '''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> For her first film she received the Afghan Peace Prize and since then has made many documentaries for which she has won many international awards as a producer, cameraman, and director and also for her work Television.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ieew.org/2013-ptb-students/alka-sadat|title= | ||
| Alka Sadat|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher=Empowering Women All Around the World – Economically, Socially, Politically}}</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> | |||
| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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| 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 | 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> For |
|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> For this film she won several awards at the London Feminist Film Festival 2013’s film festival.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://londonfeministfilmfestival.com/past-festivals/lfff2013/director-interviews/alka-sadat/|title=Alka Sadat|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher= London Feminist Film Festival.com}}</ref> As director, in 2005, Sadat produced the film ''We Are Post-modernist'' for Babak Payama & Roya Film House highlighting the plight of a 14-year-old girl in Afghanistan.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cultureunplugged.com/documentary/watch-online/play/10440/We-are-Post-Modernist|title= We are Post Modernist|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher= Cultureunplugged.com}}</ref> During 2008–2009 she worked for the Pangea Foundation and produced ''A Woman Sings in the Desert'', a documentary film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womensvoicesnow.org/tags/director_alka_sadat|title= Director:Alka Sadat at Women's Voices Now|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher=Womens Voices}}</ref> Sadat participated and presented her documentaries at the "Women's Voices Now Film Festival" held in ] in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/22/entertainment/la-et-muslim-women-films-20110322-1|title=Women in the Muslim world, as captured on film:A Los Angeles screening samples contributions to an online film festival|date=22 March 2011|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher= LA Times}}</ref> | ||
| ⚫ | Like her sister Roya, Alka Sadat produced many documentary films and was recipient of several awards at many international film festivals. She has directed many films focused on women’s issues in Afghanistan. During 2012-2013, as script writer and director, she made three documentaries for the ] (UNAMA) in collaboration with Afghan Radio and television. These documentaries highlight the ten year efforts of UN and other agencies in reconstruction of Afghanistan. They highlight issues related to children on their rights, child marriage, labour and child abuse. These documentaries also deal with rights of women and other social issues concerned with education, police, drug addiction and so forth. She also produced a documentary titled ''Afghanistan Night Story'', related to the elite commandos of Afghan Army. Another documentary released by her in 2015 is titled ''Afghanistan Women in 1393 Election'' (made in 2015) which highlights participation of women in the elections. The latest award she received was at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival! 2011 on "Public Liberties & Human Rights".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film733186.html|title =Children's Rights In Afghanistan|year=2012|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher= Film Affinity.com}}</ref> | ||
| 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; 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womensvoicesnow.org/tags/director_alka_sadat|title= Director:Alka Sadat at Women's Voices Now|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher=Womens Voices}}</ref> | |||
| ⚫ | Like her sister Roya, Alka Sadat produced many documentary films and was recipient of several awards at many international film festivals. She has directed many films focused on women’s issues in Afghanistan. During 2012-2013, as script writer and director, she made three documentaries for the ] (UNAMA) in collaboration with Afghan Radio and television. These documentaries highlight the ten year efforts of UN and other agencies in reconstruction of Afghanistan. They highlight issues related to children on their rights, child marriage, labour and child abuse. These documentaries also deal with rights of women and other social issues concerned with education, police, drug addiction and so forth. She also produced a documentary titled ''Afghanistan Night Story'', related to the elite commandos of Afghan Army. Another documentary released by her in 2015 is titled ''Afghanistan Women in 1393 Election'' (made in 2015) which highlights participation of women in the elections. The latest award she received was at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival! 2011 on "Public Liberties & Human Rights".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film733186.html|title Children's Rights In Afghanistan|year=2012|accessdate=23 June 2016|publisher= |
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| ==References== | ==References== | ||
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| Alka Sadat | |
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| 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. For her first film she received the Afghan Peace Prize and since then has made many documentaries for which she has won many international awards as a producer, cameraman, and director and also for her work Television. 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. For this film she won several awards at the London Feminist Film Festival 2013’s film festival. As director, in 2005, Sadat produced the film We Are Post-modernist for Babak Payama & Roya Film House highlighting the plight of a 14-year-old girl in Afghanistan. During 2008–2009 she worked for the Pangea Foundation and produced A Woman Sings in the Desert, a documentary film. Sadat participated and presented her documentaries at the "Women's Voices Now Film Festival" held in Los Angeles in 2011.
Like her sister Roya, Alka Sadat produced many documentary films and was recipient of several awards at many international film festivals. She has directed many films focused on women’s issues in Afghanistan. During 2012-2013, as script writer and director, she made three documentaries for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in collaboration with Afghan Radio and television. These documentaries highlight the ten year efforts of UN and other agencies in reconstruction of Afghanistan. They highlight issues related to children on their rights, child marriage, labour and child abuse. These documentaries also deal with rights of women and other social issues concerned with education, police, drug addiction and so forth. She also produced a documentary titled Afghanistan Night Story, related to the elite commandos of Afghan Army. Another documentary released by her in 2015 is titled Afghanistan Women in 1393 Election (made in 2015) which highlights participation of women in the elections. The latest award she received was at the Aljazeera International Documentary Film Festival! 2011 on "Public Liberties & Human Rights".
References
- "Roya Sadat: 'She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy's name'". The Huffington Post. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
- "Alka Sadat". Empowering Women All Around the World – Economically, Socially, Politically. Retrieved 23 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.
- "Alka Sadat". London Feminist Film Festival.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- "We are Post Modernist". Cultureunplugged.com. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- "Director:Alka Sadat at Women's Voices Now". Womens Voices. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- "Women in the Muslim world, as captured on film:A Los Angeles screening samples contributions to an online film festival". LA Times. 22 March 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- "Children's Rights In Afghanistan". Film Affinity.com. 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2016.