2015 Script Development Fund
LIST The OrphanageCategory | Asian Project |
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Project | The Orphanage |
Director | Shahrbanoo SADAT |
Country | Afghanistan, Denmark |
Director's Profile |
Shahrbanoo Sadat is a young Afghan filmmaker. She is based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sadat studied documentary in "Atelier Varan Kabul" a French Documentary Workshop in 2009. Her first short fiction Vice Versa One was selected at Directors′ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and shown at MOMA. She made Not At Home, a hybrid project that was developed and produced within a year under the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival′s initiative DOX:LAB and was selected for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2014. In 2013, she opened her own production company "Wolf Pictures" in Kabul. At the moment, she is in preproduction for her first feature film Wolf and Sheep. Shooting took place in May 2015 in Afghanistan. The film was developed with the Cannes Cinefondation Residency in 2010, Shahrbanoo was 20 years old at the time - the youngest ever selected for the residence. |