Biography
Malek Shafi’i has been making documentary films in Afghanistan and abroad for the last 13 years. He completed his education at Baagh Ferdaws Islamic Filmmaking Center in 1999 in Tehran and additionally attended a film production course in the Netherlands. Coming to Afghanistan after 20 years of exile, he has been living in Kabul for the past ten years. He founded Afghanistan Cinema Club – BASA Film in 2006. He also worked as a senior advisor for the Radio Television of Afghanistan. He has made about 30 films. Some of them won international film awards from different international film festivals. Shafi’i was a Jury member of the Tolo TV Film Festival, Kabul Film Festival, Amnesty Award of CPH-DOX (Copenhagen Documentary Film Festival), category judge of BANFF and ADB My View Video competition. Shafi'i is founder and director of Autumn Human Rights Film Festival. He also organized the second and third editions of the Kabul International Documentary and Short Film Festival; and Second Take - a film festival with a principal focus on gender and cinema. Now he is funder of Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival. In 2011 he graduated from Kateb Higher education Institute on Sociology .
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