shilan saadi Pro

She was born and grown up in Mahabad, a Kurdish city in Iran, She Graduated with BA degree in fine arts (Cinema-Director) from Sureh University in Tehran in 2008.Also she participated in documentary filmmaking workshop titled "personal language in documentary film" under the supervision of professor Arne Bro in Danish film school in Copenhagen, Denmark and documentary filmmaking workshop under the supervision of Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi in 2013. She made some documentaries and short films that have screened and won prizes in national and international film festival. She was a member of jury 2th “International film festival YalmazGuney” Batman-Turkey (2012) and a member of jury 2th “International film festival Rojava- Suriye(2017). She is Member of Iranian Documentary Filmmakers Association. She was invited by Berlinale talents - Berlin festival film 2019. She has been working on new project that called (I promise) since 2015.It is about 7 refugee girls who lives in Diyarbeker-Turkey refugee camp and follow them. This project was supportive by “Greenhouse” Documentary Development Program 2016-2017(participated in 3 seminars which hold in Morocco), Women Make Movies, Jacob Burns Film Center and Yeni Film Fund