Roya Sadat

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, feature films and TV series . She is now involved to direct the opera of A Thousand Splendid Suns for the Seattle Opera and is during pre production of her 2nd feature film Forgotten History.