Direction: Anam Abbas

Anam Abbas is a Pakistan based Pakistani/Canadian filmmaker. She runs Other Memory Media in Pakistan. As a producer and director, her first feature "Showgirls of Pakistan", winner of the Best Pitch Award at the 2016 Hotdocs Forum, premiered in competition at IDFA in 2020. Her latest fiction short "Saya", co-directed with Fawzia Mirza, was selected to play in competition at the Chicago International Film Festival in 2019. Her first feature documentary as a Director "This Stained Dawn" follows the feminist activists who organize the Women's marches in Pakistan. Anam herself was an organizer of these (Aurat March) in Karachi in 2018 and in Islamabad in 2019.