Alka Sadat

Alka Sadat
الکا سادات
Alka Sadat in 2015
Born1988 (age 35–36)
Herat, Afghanistan
OccupationDocumentary Filmmaker
Known forMovies Half Value Life (2008) and Afghanistan Night Stories We Are Postmodern (2010), and establishing Roya Film House
Websitewww.alkasadat.com.

Alka Sadat (Persian: الکا سادات,(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.[1] 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 in Television.[2] 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.[3] Her contribution to film making so far is in 15 documentaries and one short fiction feature film.[4]

  1. ^ "Roya Sadat: 'She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy's name'". The Huffington Post. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Alka Sadat". Empowering Women All Around the World – Economically, Socially, Politically. Archived from the original on 17 August 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
  3. ^ "Afghan Filmmaking on the Edge: Interview with Alka Sadat". Women's Voices Now. 27 March 2011. Archived from the original on 2016-06-25. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
  4. ^ "First International Women Film Festival-Herat" (PDF). International Federation for Human Rights. Retrieved 7 June 2016.