Sana Bilgrami
Directors Name: Sana Bilgrami
Country of Origin: UK
Biography:
Sana Bilgrami was born in 1974 in Karachi, Pakistan.
In 2001, she made the award-winning short film Under my Skin for her Masters degree at the Edinburgh College of Art. She won the Award for Special Achievement at Scottish Students on Screen 2002, where Under My Skin also won Best Factual Film.
The film was shortlisted for the Saltire Society Grierson Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2002, and won Best Short Documentary Award at Chichester Film Festival 2002.
Sana Bilgrami works as a freelance director in Edinburgh.
Her recent documentaries include Recreating Paradise (2002, 20 mins, National Museums of Scotland), and commissions for broadcast, Tree Fellers (2004, 24 mins, This Scotland, STV, Grampian TV, Scottish Screen) and Across the Waters (2004, 28 minutes, BBC Scotland, Bridging the Gap).
She has just been commissioned by the Pakistan government to direct a documentary film about the crafts and the lives of artisans across the provinces of Pakistan, and is directing a short as part of the SDI/Lansdowne Productions New Ten Commandments project in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration.
Links:
Across the Waters