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Havana Marking is a Director, Producer and Editor British born on 2000

Havana Marking

Havana Marking
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 2000 (25 years)

Havana Marking is a British producer and director of documentary films. She is best known for the 2009 film Afghan Star which won Best Director and the Audience Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. The film follows a season of the Afghan TV phenomenon, based on the X-Factor / American Idol. Marking lived in Kabul for five months and focused on four main contestants in the series. The film changed pitch at the moment that Setara Hussainzada (a young woman from Herat) danced during her final performance. This led to death threats, condemnation and the possibility that the show itself might be stopped. The film also won The Grierson award for ‘best doc on a contemporary issue’ and the Prix Italia and is available on DVD.

She has subsequently made films for HBO (Silencing the Song), and More4 (Vote Afghanistan!) and has most recently finished a part-animated feature, Smash & Grab: the Story of the Pink Panthers, about Balkan diamond thieves for BBC Storyville. She is also Executive Producer on numerous films, notably To Hell and Back Again (dir Danfung Dennis), nominated for an Academy Award 2012. Hell and Back Again is also available on DVD.

Marking is one director of the British independent film company Roast Beef Productions, whose ‘business plan’ was only to: “Get a studio, fill it with talented people and see what happens”… Finally her articles and photographs have been published in the Guardian, The Observer and the Telegraph.

Marking was born in England and moved to the United States as a child. Her father, Giles Marking, is a successful designer in London and was an Architecture professor at the University of Washington. Stacy Marking, her mother, is a journalist, writer and business woman and was one of the first female television directors in the UK.

Best films

Hell and Back Again
Hell and Back Again
(2011)
(Executive producer)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Havana Marking (4 films)

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Director

Afghan Star
Afghan Star (2009)
, 1h27
Directed by Havana Marking
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Documentary, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films
Rating71% 3.5852853.5852853.5852853.5852853.585285
Afghan Star follows the story of Hameed Sakhizada, Setara Hussainzada, Rafi Naabzada, and Lema Sahar, four contestants appearing in the third season of the Afghan reality show Afghan Star. The show's director and host Daoud Sediqi explains that it provides an opportunity for Afghans to enjoy music again after the Taliban's ban. The contestants become national celebrities with people campaigning for votes which are cast via SMS. The show is popular among ordinary Afghan people and fans vote for their favorite contestants even across ethnic lines.

Production

Hell and Back Again
Hell and Back Again (2011)
, 1h28
Origin USA
Genres War, Documentary, Action, Historical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about terrorism, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about health care, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Roles Executive producer
Rating63% 3.198763.198763.198763.198763.19876
Danfung Dennis filme le quotidien d'un régiment de l'armée américaine en Afghanistan, et plus particulièrement celui du Marine Harris jusqu'à son retour, blessé physiquement et mentalement, en Caroline du Nord.

Editor