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Sana Bilgrami was born in 1974 in Karachi, Pakistan. She studied
Film & Communications and Philosophy at McGill University
in Montreal. Edinburgh is her present home.
She completed a Masters degree in Film and TV at the Edinburgh
College of Art, for which she directed, filmed and produced
the award winning documentary film Under
my Skin.
The film
won Best
Documentary at the Chichester International Film
Festival 2002, and was nominated for the Grierson Award at the
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002. |
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She was also presented the DAG
Award for Special Achievement at
Scottish Students on Screen 2002.
In 2000,
she worked as creative director for a television production
company in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Her most recent film Recreating Paradise was commissioned by
the Glasgow Museums and the National Museums of Scotland.
She has just been selected from amongst "Scotland's best
talent" for a Bridging
the Gap Award for her next documentary film.
Sana has recently been to Pakistan post the 2005 Earthquake and here is a download of the film she made for an NGO working in the region download |