Shahrbanoo Sadat

Shahrbanoo Sadat
Born 1990
Tehran, Iran
Occupation Filmmaker
Language Persian
Nationality Afghan

Shahrbanoo Sadat (born 1990, Tehran, Iran) is an Afghan filmmaker.

Biography

Born in Tehran, Sadat grew up in a remote shepherd community in Afghanistan.[1] She studied documentary filmmaking at the Kabul workshop of Ateliers Varan ,[1] and began her career working in cinema vérité. Her first feature film, Wolf and Sheep, tells the story of a village much like the one where she grew up.[2] It won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival's Directors' Fortnight in 2016.[3]

Filmography

References

  1. 1 2 www.pro-idea.cz, Pro-idea s.r.o. /. "Shahrbanoo Sadat | TorinoFilmLab". www.torinofilmlab.it. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  2. ↑ "LFF 2016 Women Directors: Meet Shahrbanoo Sadat — "Wolf and Sheep"". Women and Hollywood. 2016-10-06. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
  3. ↑ "Cannes: 'Wolf and Sheep' Tops Directors' Fortnight Awards". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2017-03-12.
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