Hamed Alizadeh a Hazara’s Filmmaker that’s living In Sweden.

 Hamed was director of Afghanistan Documentary Filmmakers Organization /Ateliers Varan Kabul (ADFO). He was trained by EURODOC Program in 2013 and he started producing as a job. He used to work in Community Supported Film in 2010-11 as coordinator and producer for two years.

 In 2009, he attended Atelier Varan workshop. Thereafter, he began making documentaries reflecting on social and cultural issues. His documentaries have been screened in many film festivals around the world and some of them have been broadcasted by European TV channels as well as by Afghan TV channels nationally.

 He taught documentary filmmaking to students of Cinema Department at Kabul University from August 2012 to June 2014. Hamed believes people should know about Cinema as a normal art that they, the people can learn and make films themselves, not to only be an audience. For this idea He teaches filming for the new generation at some school in Kabul and work with Global Nomads group.

He worked in Jamea Weekly Magazine as a designer and photographer also he writes Literature article and short story for some Magazine in Afghanistan and also Hamed was director and producer for Children Program in Reah-e Farda TV in Kabul for 2 and half Years.

He also worked as technical manager of Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival.

Hamed was born in one of the rural villages of Samangan, north Afghanistan. When he was very young, he felt people didn’t understand his expression. Thus, he decided to write down his thoughts for them. Years later, he came to know that his people couldn’t read and write. But he had messages to be communicated. Therefore, he was encouraged to find a medium that would have easily express his opinions to literate and illiterate Afghans. He found cinema and theater the most appropriate tools for change and helping his people.