10 Facts About Roya Sadat

Roya Sadat is an Afghan film producer and director.

Roya Sadat 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.

Roya Sadat is 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.

Roya Sadat was born in Herat, Afghanistan in 1983, at the time of the Russian war.

Roya Sadat studied law and political science at the Herat University and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2005.

Roya Sadat was an autodidact who educated herself by reading books authored by Syd Field in Persian-translated versions.

Roya Sadat made this film in less than two weeks, in a digital video format.

Three, Two, One related in illiteracy among women of her country which was produced by her sister Alka Roya Sadat; this was slated for screening, in 2007, in the Afghan parliament to highlight the need for approving pending legislation on this subject.

In 2007, Roya Sadat worked and direct the first Afghan TV Drama for Afghan Television Tolo TV and produced popular soap opera called the Secrets of This House with 50 episodes related to the current life of people of her country.

In 2003, she and her sister Alka Roya Sadat established the first independent Afghan film company.