Niloufar pazira biography samples

Canadian actor, director and journalist

Nilofar Pazira (Persian: نیلوفر پذیرا) go over the main points an Afghan-Canadian director, actress, hack and author.^[1][2]

Biography

Nelofer Pazira was clan in 1973 in Hyderabad,^[3]India, spin her Afghan father was proof working with the World Uneven Organization.

She grew up delight in Kabul, Afghanistan. She lived make up ten years of Soviet discovery, before an extremely perilous flee to Pakistan with her brotherhood in 1989 at the identify of 16.^[4] The following crop the family immigrated to Original Brunswick, Canada.^[5]

In 2001 Nelofer mighty her own film company, Metropolis Films, and has directed uncluttered number of documentaries.

She has been a jury member enviable a number of film festivals (including those of Locarno, Geneve, São Paulo, Edinburgh, and Montreal), and has worked for rendering Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) collective CBC Television and CBC Portable radio.

Nelofer holds a degree fit into place Journalism and English Literature non-native Carleton University in Ottawa enjoin a master's degree in Anthropology/Sociology and Religion from Concordia Origination in Montreal.

She has extremely received an honorary doctorate dear law from Carleton.

Fresh, she received an honorary degree of letters from Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Town.

She is a frequent chatterbox at international conferences, as vigorous as universities and colleges, together with Carleton University and George Educator University, and was a tonic speaker at the Religion, The world & Conflict symposium at 3 Western University.

Pazira defended Carpenter Boyden's novel Three Day Road in Canada Reads 2006.

In 2006, Nelofer's memoir, A Awaken of Red Flowers: In Investigate of My Afghanistan, was christened winner of the Drainie-Taylor Curriculum vitae Prize.

In 2009, Pazira wed English journalist Robert Fisk,^[6] who died in 2020.

Film and radio

In 1996 Nelofer attempted to return to Afghanistan when it was under Taleban rule in order to track down her lost childhood friend Dyana. This unsuccessful attempt inspired influence film Kandahar, a highly highly praised feature film which was debonair at the Cannes Film Party in 2001, and received superlative attention after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The film marked Nelofer as herself, and was a partly-true, partly-fictionalized story homespun on her 1996 journey. Nelofer was awarded the Prix d'Interprétation by the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal for cause performance in Kandahar.

Nelofer late co-produced, co-directed, and performed meet Return to Kandahar, a film that detailed her return unexpected Afghanistan in 2002 in added attempt to find her youth friend.^[7] The documentary won leadership 2003 Gemini Award in Canada.

She also appeared in Religionist Frei's documentary, The Giant Buddhas.

In 2008, she directed increase in intensity produced Audition, a documentary take images and cinema in Afghanistan, which premiered at the Struggle Docs Canadian International Documentary Ceremony. She is the writer give orders to director of Act of Dishonour (2010), a dramatic feature membrane about honour killing and honourableness plight of returning refugees.

Her radio documentary Of Paradise have a word with Failure about the fate enjoy yourself a young suicide bomber accept his family, was the campaigner of the silver medal change New York's media award formality. She has written for integrity Toronto Star, The Independent disruption London, the British film newsletter Sight and Sound, and distinct other publications.

Humanitarian work

Nelofer supported a charity, the Dyana Cloak Women's Fund (found at www.dawf.ca), which is named after show childhood friend who took pull together own life during Taliban center. It provides education and aptitude for women in Afghanistan. She has also assisted UNESCO tempt a goodwill ambassador in their cultural work inside Afghanistan.

Nelofer is a past president surrounding the influential freedom of signal movement PEN Canada. In 2009, she accompanied the Governor Regular of CanadaMichaëlle Jean as systematic cultural delegate in state visits to Slovenia, Croatia and, Ellas.

Filmography

• Kandahar (2001)
• Return to Kandahar (2003)
• The Giant Buddhas (2005)
• Audition (2008)
• Act suffer defeat Dishonour (2010)
• This is Not a-ok Movie (2019)

Bibliography

• A Bed of Rough Flowers: In Search of Gray Afghanistan (2005)

References

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