Shahrbanoo Sadat was born in 1991, an Afghan scriptwriter and director, based in Kabul. She studied documentary filmmaking at the French workshop Atelier Varan Kabul. Her first short fiction Vice Versa One was selected for Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2011. She is working on a series of five feature films inspired by the unpublished autobiographical piece of close friend Anwar Hashimi. Wolf and Sheep was developed with the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency in 2010 when Sadat was 19 years old – the youngest ever selected. The film won the top award at Directors’ Fortnight and was nominated for Best Youth Feature Film at the 2016 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. It’s sequel, The Orphanage once again premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and earned Sadat her second APSA nomination.
The Asia Pacific Screen Academy expresses its respect for and acknowledgement of the South East Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. We pay our respects to the Traditional Owners of country, including the custodial communities on whose land works are created and celebrated by the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. We acknowledge the continuing connection to land, waters and communities. We also pay our respects to Elders, past and present. We recognise the integral role Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and First Nations peoples continue to play in storytelling and celebration spaces.
