Abdulkadir Ahmed Said
Abdulkadir Ahmed Said (Cabdulkaadir Axmed Saciid) is a Somali film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor.
Abdulkadir Ahmed Said
- Name
- Abdulkadir Ahmed Said عبد القادر أحمد سعيد
- Born
- 1953
- Birthplace
- Mogadishu, Somalia
- Occupation
- film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer & editor
- Nationality
- Somalia
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Abdulkadir Ahmed Said (Cabdulkaadir Axmed Saciid) is a Somali film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer and editor.
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• Name — Abdulkadir Ahmed Said عبد القادر أحمد سعيد • Born — 1953 • Birthplace — Mogadishu, Somalia • Occupation — film director, producer, screenwriter, cinematographer & editor • Years Active — 1970s–present
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Biography
Said was born in 1953 in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. In 1970, he began working for the Somali Film Agency as a photographer assigned to international relations and as a consultant for productions with other countries. Between 1984 and 1986, he served as Director of Programming on Somali television, and wrote and directed several training programs. Said worked as assistant director on numerous film productions including The Somali Dervish (1983); The Parching Winds of Somalia (1984); Riviera Somalia (1984), a program for the Italian public service broadcaster Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI); and A Man of Race (1987), produced by the LuceSaimon Film Institute. Among his better known films include the shorts Geedka nolosha (The Tree of Life), which won the Prize of the City of Torino in the Best Film - International Short Film Competition category at the Torino International Festival of Young Cinema in 1988, and La Conchiglia from 1992.
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On the Front Line of African Cinema, Black Camera, 2010
Our language, our music, our city? / Gold, tears and music / Scratch, mix and –? By Bridget Thompson and Abdulkadir Ahmed Said (producers and directors), Journal of the Musical Arts in Africa, 2006
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