Roya Sadat

Roya Sadat
رویا سادات
Born1981 (age 42–43)
Herat, Afghanistan
Occupations
  • Film producer
  • director
Known forMovies 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 (Dari: رؤیا سادات; born 1983[1][2]) is an Afghan film producer and director. She was the first woman director in the history of Afghan cinema in the post-Taliban era, and ventured into making feature films and documentaries on the theme of injustice and restrictions imposed on women. Following the fall of the Taliban regime in the country, she made her debut feature film Three Dots.[3][4] For this film she received six of nine awards which included as best director and best film.[5] In 2003,A Letter to the President her most famous film that received many international awards, she and her sister Alka Sadat established the Roya Film House and under this banner produced more than 30 documentaries and feature films and TV series .[4][6] She is now involved to direct the opera of A Thousand Splendid Suns for the Seattle Opera and she is during pre production of her 2nd feature film Forgotten History.[7]

  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ Nili, Hadi (March 24, 2018). "نام رویا سادات در فهرست 'زنان شجاع' وزارت خارجه آمریکا". BBC Persian. Retrieved 2019-04-23.
  3. ^ Graham 2010, p. 142.
  4. ^ a b Nagarajan, Saraswathy (17 December 2014). "Voice of the silenced". The Hindu. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  5. ^ Nawa, Fariba (2007). "New Voices New Afghanistan". Aramco World. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
  6. ^ "Roya Sadat: 'She even changed her name to Sohrab, a boy's name'". Huffington Post. 4 May 2014. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
  7. ^ "International Jury". Roya Sadat. International Film Festival of Kerala 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2016.