Sabrina Dhawan graduated from Columbia University’s graduate film program in 2001 with her debut feature as screenwriter, Monsoon Wedding. Amongst other awards, it won the “Leon D’Oro” at the Venice Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. Her student short Saanjh – As Night Falls won “Best of the Festival” at the Palm Springs Film Festival, “Most Original Film” from New Line Cinema, “Audience Impact” Award at Angelus Awards, and was nominated for a Student Academy Award.
Dhawan’s other produced screenplay credits include Kaminey, directed by Vishal Bharadwaj for UTV; Ishqiya, directed by Abhishek Chaubey for Shemaroo Entertainment; 11.9.01, directed by Nair for Canal Plus; Cosmopolitan for PBS; and Rangoon, directed by Vishal Bharadwaj. She served as co-producer on Bollywood Hero, a mini-series for IFC and as story consultant on Bharadwaj’s Matru Ki Bijli Ka Mandola and wrote a documentary Greatest Love Story Ever Told to celebrate 100 years of Indian cinema for UTV and Shekhar Kapoor.
The studios and production companies Dhawan has been commissioned to write for include UTV, 20th
Century Fox, HBO, Disney, Fox-Star, Killer Films, ABC Family, and Fox Searchlight. She has taught at filmmaking labs around the world, including Uganda, Tanzania, India, and the continental USA.
