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Sabrina Dhawan is an Indian screenwriter and producer, born in and raised in Delhi, India.

Dhawan is a Professor and the area head of screenwriting at the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. She has been commissioned to write for many large companies including , , ABC Family and 20th Century Fox. She has taught at filmmaking labs all over the world.

Dhawan is most well known for her writing credits on various feature-length films, as well as some producing and directing work on her own independent short films. She works a great deal within Indian and cinema. , a 2001 film directed by , is one of her earliest and most well known works, launching her screenwriting career.

Dhawan has a brief acting cameo in as a wedding guest.

Early life
Dhawan was born in England and raised in Delhi. Dhawan attended both the Convent of Jesus and Mary as well as Delhi Public School for her elementary education. She then went on to Hindu College to obtain her Bachelor of Arts and to Leicester University, U.K. for a Masters of Arts in Communications Research.Dhawan, S. (2016, March). Getting to Know Sabrina Dhawan E-mail. Dhawan then moved to New York City, where she graduated from Columbia University's Graduate Film Program in 2001 with a Masters of Fine Arts in Film.

Her student short film, (Saanjh) As Night Falls, which she made during the last years of her MFA, has been successful since its release in 2000.

Career
Graduating from Columbia in 2001, the same year as the release of , Dhawan's career was almost immediate. In fact, Dhawan wrote the first draft of the screenplay while she was still in school - it only took her about a week. Fusing , , and , Dhawan wrote the multi-lingual script for . The film was premiered in the Marché du Film section of the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for various awards, including a Golden Globe.

After their pairing on , Dhawan and formed a brief partnership in which Dhawan worked as Nair's assistant at Columbia sometime in the early 2000s. She also wrote the segment "India" (directed by Nair) in 11'09"01 September 11, a series of short films for in 2002.

Dhawan's short film (Saanjh) As Night Falls was awarded the Best of the Festival at the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films. It also received the Audience Award at Angelus Awards; and was voted "Most Original Film," by New Line Cinema at the Polo Ralph Lauren New Works Festival in 2000.

In 2009, Dhawan acted as co-producer for the first three episodes of a TV Series titled .

In 2016, Dhawan co-wrote the film Rangoon, with Vishal Bharadwaj and Matthew Robbins.

Dhawan worked with Mira Nair to create a stage adaptation of which ran at the Berkeley Repertory Theater in California in 2017.

Personal life
In 2006, Dhawan married Steve Cohen, who wrote the screenplay for The Bachelor (1999) starring Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger. Cohen died on 29 September 2012. 

Dhawan was living in New York City with their son, Kabir.

Filmography
2000(Saanjh) As Night FallsWriter/DirectorFiction Short
2001WriterFiction (Film)
200211'09"01 September 11 ("India")WriterFiction Short
2003CosmopolitanWriterFiction (TV)
2004Independent LensWriter (2 episodes)TV documentary
2009WriterFiction (Film)
2010WriterFiction (Film)
2011Bollywood: The Greatest Love Story Ever ToldWriterDocumentary
2013Matru Ki Bijlee Ka MandolaScript ConsultantFiction
2016RangoonWriterFiction (Film)

Awards and nominations
2000Palm Spring International Festival of Short FilmsBest of the Festival( Saanjh) As Night Falls
2001Venice Film FestivalGolden Lion
2002Venice Film FestivalBest Short Film11'09"01 September 11
2002Venice Film FestivalUNESCO Award11'09"01 September 11
2002Zee Cine AwardsSpecial Award for International Cinema
2002Golden GlobeBest Foreign Language Film
2002Best Film Not in the English Language
2002Awards Circuit Community AwardsBest Foreign Language Film
2002British Independent Film AwardsBest Foreign Independent Film - Foreign Language
2003Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
2003César Awards (France)Best European Union Film11'09"01 September 11
2003National Board of Review (US)Freedom of Expression Award11'09"01 September 11
2004Director's View Film FestivalFeature DocumentaryIndependent Lens
2004San Diego Film FestivalBest Short FilmIndependent Lens
2004Toronto ReelWorld Film FestivalBest International Short FilmIndependent Lens
2010Best Film
2010International Indian Film Academy AwardsBest Picture
2011International Indian Film Academy AwardsBest Screenplay
2011International Indian Film Academy AwardsBest Dialogue

External links
  • Https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486531/awards?ref_=tt_awd

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