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Diana Saqeb
Afghanistan
AHRF FESTIVAL COORDINATOR / Film Maker
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Title/Occupation:  Director 
Services Provided:  Film Festivals/Marketers 
Gender: Female
Citizenship: Afghan
Languages Spoken: Persian / Dari / English

Brief Message to Members: 

Autumn Human Rights Film Festival (AHRF)
AHRF is an international films festival focusing on the subject of human rights. It aims to encourage film makers who use their cameras to document struggles against discrimination, injustice and violence. We have been working towards this festival since 2009 and we are delighted that the first Human Rights Film Festival will open in Kabul on 1-7 October; 2011.The festival is being organized by the Afghanistan Cinema Club with the support of various national and international organizations. It will present stories of lives affected by war, discrimination and injustice. AHRF invites entries to the festival. The entries can be documentary, feature film, short film, animation or video art on the subject of human rights. Entry is open to all national and international entrants.
DEADLINE: August 10, 2011.
www.ahrfestival.org

Biography: 

Diana Saqeb

AHRF FESTIVAL COORDINATOR / Film Maker

Documentary film maker and women rights activist, Diana Saqeb spent 24 years as immigrant. For the past three years, she has been a resident of Kabul. She studied at the Tehran Art Academy to become a film director. She is currently a member of BASA - an artists' group based in Kabul.

Her first documentary film 25 Percent deals with six female members of the Afghan parliament and the challenges they face in their daily lives. 25 Percent has been screened at many film festivals across the world.

Her second documentary Run Roobina Run is about Roobina Moqimyar, the first Afghan female Athlete to participate in the Olympic Games. It was screened during the Beijing Olympic Games, 2010.

Diana is the festival coordinator of the first Autumn Human Rights Film Festival. She has worked as deputy director on the second and third editions of the Kabul International Film Festival; and Second Take, a film festival with a principal focus on Gender and Cinema. She is

the chief editor of Theme – a magazine on Cinema, Theatre, Music and Television.