Siddiq Barmak

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Siddiq Barmak Born September 7 1962 in Panjshir Afghanistan is a film director and producer He received an MA degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute VGIK in 1987 He has written a few screenplays and has made a few short films His first feature film Osama won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film in 2004 There is a stylistic echo in Osama featured in Afghan films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty father Mohsens Kandahar and daughter Samira Makhmalbafs At Five in the Afternoon the latter also shot in postTaliban Kabul Barmak directed Osama with significant funding and assistance from the elder Makhmalbaf The Iranian director invested thousands of dollars in the film lending Barmak his Arriflex camera and encouraging him to send the movie to international festivals which eventually generated further funding from Japanese and Irish producers Barmak received UNESCOs Fellini Silver Medal for his drama Osama in 2003 Barmak is also director of the Afghan Children Education Movement ACEM an association that promotes literacy culture and the arts which was also founded by Makhmalbaf The school trains actors and directors for newly emerging Afghan cinema Barmak is one of the celebrated figures in Persian cinema as well as the emerging cinema of Afghanistan Description above from the Wikipedia article Siddiq Barmak licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia