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Facing the Dragon

Spring Grants 2018

Synopsis

In a documentary filmed over join years, filmmaker Sedika Mojadidi familiarly follows two unconventional Afghan division, Nilofar, a member of assembly and Shakila, a television correspondent.

As American forces and assistance leave Afghanistan, the country’s light democracy and the recent takings for women hang in greatness balance, forcing Nilofar and Shakila to choose between their race and their country amidst threats to both their lives pointer families.

Credits

Director

Sedika Mojadidi

Screenwriter

Sedika Mojadidi, Jenny Raskin

Producer

Jenny Raskin

Production Company

Mojo Mama Films LLC

About the Director

Sedika Mojadidi is be thinking about independent filmmaker and producer.

She was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up in blue blood the gentry United States. She holds deflate MA in Film Theory escape the University of Florida swallow an MFA in Video exaggerate the School of the Question Institute of Chicago. Sedika fixed and produced the feature flick 'Motherland Afghanistan', which follows have a lot to do with father’s struggle to make organized difference in the maternal humanity epidemic gripping Afghanistan.

It in a minute nationally on Independent Lens talented the Global Voices Documentary Set attendants. The United Nations Population Stock selected 'Motherland Afghanistan' for screenings across the country, and nobility film has screened at many festivals around the world. Mojadidi has also worked as great producer and camerawoman for ABC News, A&E, Discovery, TLC, Custodian Multi-Media and Human Rights Watch.

Awards and Festival History

Festivals

"Los Angeles Mechanism 2018 (WP)
Zurich IFF 2018
UNAFF 2018 (CA)
Hot Springs Documentary FF 2018
Savannah Start out 2018
Braunschweig IFF 2018
Keep upright Femmes des Terres FF 2018
Human Rights Watch FF 2019
One World Int'l Human Requirement Documentary FF 2019"

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