Siddiq Barmak

Afghan film director and producer

Siddiq Barmak

Born	(1962-09-07) September 7, 1962 (age 61) Panjshir, Afghanistan
Occupation(s)	film director, screenwriter, film producer
Website	www.barmakfilm.com

Siddiq Barmak (Persian: صدیق برمک, born September 7, 1962) is an Afghan film director and producer. In 2004, Barmak won Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for his first feature film, Osama.^[1] He received an M.A. degree in cinema direction from the Moscow Film Institute (VGIK) in 1987.

Osama

There is a stylistic echo in Osama featured in Afghan films by the Iranian Makhmalbaf dynasty. Barmak directed Osama with significant funding and assistance from Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The Iranian director invested 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.^[2] Barmak received "UNESCO’s Fellini Silver Medal" for his drama, Osama, in 2003.

Afghan Children Education Movement

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.

Filmography

He has written screenplays and has made short films and produced a number of films.

Divar - (1984) director
Circle - (1985) director
Bigana - (1987) director
Uruj - (1995) scipt writer
Osama - (2003) director
Kurbani - (2004) executive producer
Earth and Ashes - (2004) co-producer
Opium War - (2008) director
Apple from Paradise (2008) - producer
Neighbor (2009) executive producer

References

^ Winners & Nominees 2004, Golden Globes, retrieved 2020-02-16
^ Meek, James (January 16, 2004). "Through the dark black smoke of war". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2010-10-31.

External links

Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-06-12)
Siddiq Barmak at IMDb
Osama and Afghan cinema: an interview with Siddiq Barmak at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2006-08-25)
Afghan Aftermath at the Wayback Machine (archived 2007-11-13)