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    Sedika Mojadidi wins an award at DC Independent Film Festival

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    By World Cinema Reports' Editors on 03/15/2019 Festivals, Videos

    DC Independent Film Festival has announced the Award winners for its 20th edition. One of the winners is Sedika Mojadidi that has received Best Film by a Woman Director Inaugural Award for her film FACING THE DRAGON.

    Sedika Mojadidi, director/producer/cinematographer, is an Award winning independent filmmaker, Sedika Mojadidi has directed two feature documentaries, “Motherland Afghanistan,” (2006, PBS< Independent Lens) and “Facing the Dragon”, (PBS, 2018). Some of her television work includes: the critically acclaimed ABC News documentary series, “Boston Med” and television/documentary projects for PBS, The Discovery Channel, TLC, A&E, Guardian Multi Media and Human Rights Watch. Her writing is published in “One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature”. She is the recipient of the Human Rights Watch Courage in Filmmaking Award and the Savannah Film Festival Jury Award for Unheard Voices.

    Other awards of the DC Independent Film Festival went to:

    Best of Fest
    WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN (USA)
    DIRECTED BY ARWEN CURRY

    Best Feature Film
    TOUCHED (USA)
    DIRECTED BY BARAK BARKAN

    Best International Film
    PENGUIN HIGHWAY (Japan)
    DIRECTED BY HIROYASU ISHIDA

    Best Documentary
    WBCN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (USA)
    DIRECTED BY BILL LICHTENSTEIN

    Best Metro DC Film
    DAKOTA (USA)
    DIRECTED BY ROBERTO CARMONA

    Best Short Film – Fiction
    THE SCORPION’S TAIL (USA)
    DIRECTED BY JHOSIMAR VASQUEZ

    Best Short Film – Documentary
    33: LOCAL DC (USA)
    DIRECTED BY DAVID ROSS, LLOYD FOSTER, KAVON MARTEZ

    Best Web Series Pilot
    VOWS (USA)
    DIRECTED BY GINNY LEISE

    Best Animation
    ALEF B’TAMUZ (Israel)
    DIRECTED BY YAEL REISFELD

    HIGH SCHOO FILM COMPETITION WINNERS:
    1st Place
    FINDING HOME (USA)
    DIRECTED BY YOLANDA MORRISON

    2nd Place
    I AM NOT BROKEN (USA)
    DIRECTED BY ABRIELLE YEN MARSDEN

    3rd Place
    BLAGDEN ALLEY NW (USA)
    DIRECTED BY NYRENE MONTEFORTE

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