Biography

Mehreen is an award-winning and critically acclaimed director and producer with an extensive two-decade-long career with 2 feature films, 16 TV series, 11 TV films, 2 web series, and multiple shorts and medium-length films for television to her credit.

Her 1st feature film, 'Ramchand Pakistani' premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. It was awarded the FIPRISCI Prize by the International Federation of Film Critics, the Satyajit Ray Award at the London Film Festival, and was screened at MOMA in New York for a week-long run. It was released theatrically in India, Pakistan & the UK with digital distribution in the US. Her 2nd feature film 'Dobara Phir Se' filmed in New York and Karachi had a theatrical release in the UK, USA, the UAE, and Pakistan in 2017. It was also showcased at the Seattle South Asian Film Festival, the Chicago South Asian Film Festival, and the Issaquah International Film Festival, Seattle. Her short feature, Lala Begum produced by Zee India won Best Screenplay at the DC South Asian Film Festival & Best Film at the PIFF Festival. Her award-winning short films and TV dramas include 'Daughters of the Late Colonel', 'Beauty Parlor', 'Laal Baig (Cockroach), 'Harjai' (Betrayal), and 'Doraha'.

She is a founding member of the KaraFilm Festival & the NGO WAR (War Against Rape) and was a directing mentor at the Maisha Film Lab in Uganda - a non-profit training lab founded by director Mira Nair.

She is the recipient of several awards for her work & has served as a jury member in many local & international film festivals.

Mehreen lives in Brooklyn, New York.

(Crossroads). 'Ramchand Pakistani',
- IMDb mini biography by: Mehreen Jabbar