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Mehreen Jabbar<br />

Mehreen is a prolific and critically acclaimed Pakistani-American<br />

director and producer. Her extensive two decade long career<br />

includes TV series such as Daam, Doraha, Kahaniyaan, Mera<br />

Naam Yousuf Hai, Jackson Heights, as well a number of made for<br />

TV films and short films like Lala Begum, Beauty Parlor & Daughters<br />

of the Late Colonel. She has earned numerous accolades and<br />

awards for her work, which has consistently brought her both<br />

commercial and critical success. Mehreen’s first feature film titled ‘Ramchand Pakistani’<br />

premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008. It was awarded the<br />

FIPRISCI Prize by the International Federation of Film Critics, the Satyajit Ray Award at<br />

the London Film Festival and was screened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York<br />

for a week long run. Mehreen has been a member of the National Board of Film Censors<br />

in Karachi, a founding member of the KaraFilm Festival in Karachi, Pakistan and a<br />

founder member of the NGO WAR (War Against Rape). In 2012 She was invited to the<br />

Maisha Film Lab in Uganda – a non-profit training lab founded by director Mira Nair to<br />

be a directing mentor.<br />

Aamina Sheikh<br />

Aamina Sheikh is a Pakistani actress and former model. Sheikh<br />

has worked as a spokesperson for the French beauty brand L'Oreal.<br />

In 2008, Sheikh appeared in three telefilms: Aasmaan Chu Lay,<br />

Pachees Qadam Pe Maut and Baarish Mein Deewar. She has also<br />

acted in Seedlings (2013), O21 (2014) and Josh (2013). Sheikh<br />

was born in New York City and spent her childhood in Karachi<br />

and Saudi Arabia. In Karachi she did her O and A levels, then<br />

studied film video production at Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, and<br />

worked as an assistant at a Manhattan-based production company.<br />

Shehrbano Saiyid<br />

She is a freelance Documentary Film Maker; she has worked as<br />

Reporter/Writer at Geo TV Network and was Consultant at Agha<br />

Khan Rural Support Program. Shehrbano is Social Studies graduate<br />

from Lahore University of Management Sciences and has<br />

Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Columbia University.<br />

Vibhav Roy<br />

Vibhav started his career playing the main lead in Gustakh Dil on<br />

Life OK. The success paved way for him to portray lead roles of<br />

Ishaan in Zee TV’s Doli Armaano Ki and Star TV's Kuch Toh Hai<br />

Tere Mere Darmiyaan. The role of Itaat Khan in Sanjay Leela<br />

Bhansali's magnum opus Padmavat was his break into movies.<br />

He plays 'Fahd Khan' in Sony Pictures release Lashtam Pashtam.

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