The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Afghanistan
This page contains a list of the greatest Afghan Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Afghanistan. This makes Afghanistan the birth place of the 98th most number of Film Directors behind Uruguay, and Singapore.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Afghan Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Afghan Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Roya Sadat (b. 1983)
With an HPI of 31.29, Roya Sadat is the most famous Afghan Film Director. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Roya Sadat (Dari: رؤیا سادات; born 1983) 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. For this film she received six of nine awards which included as best director and best film. 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 . 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.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Afghan film directors born between 1983 and 1983. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Afghan film directors include Roya Sadat.
