Abdulkadir Ahmed Said ( so, Cabdulkaadir Axmed Saciid, ar, عبد القادر أحمد سعيد) is a prominent
Somali film director,
producer,
screenwriter,
cinematographer and
editor.
Biography
Said was born in 1953 in
Mogadishu
Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Oc ...
, the capital of
Somalia
Somalia, , Osmanya script: 𐒈𐒝𐒑𐒛𐒐𐒘𐒕𐒖; ar, الصومال, aṣ-Ṣūmāl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ...
. In 1970, he began working for the
Somali Film Agency as a
photographer
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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 also 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.
While he has worked on many films in the past, Said is probably best known for his short films ''
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
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in 1988, and ''
La Conchiglia'' from 1992. In these two standout films, he artistically casts humans as the primary agents responsible for the destruction and depletion of the environment and its resources.
[Bakari, p.14]
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Ethnic Somali people
1953 births
Living people
People from Mogadishu
Somalian film directors
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