ABOUT SHAMIM
Writer and director Shamim Sarif is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and director for feature films and premium series, including the latest season of YOU for Netflix/Warner. Later this year, she will direct the pilot and first three episodes of the BBC’s new drama SPLIT UP (Sister Pictures).
Shamim’s fourth feature as writer/director, Polarized, recently won two ‘Best Feature’ awards, including at the Los Angeles Int Film Festival, and releases in the U.S. in 2024.
Her previous features as writer/director include Despite the Falling Snow, starring Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance (13 awards). Her first feature I Can’t Think Straight debuted at Palm Springs Film Festival and won 11 awards. Her follow up The World Unseen debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival before garnering 23 awards internationally.
Her latest books, The Athena Protocol and The Shadow Mission, (HarperCollins) are being developed as a series. She is developing three further series concepts of her own, including Redacted, a news/espionage procedural alongside Sphere Media.
As well as YOU, her other series directing credits include HBO Max’s Sort Of, SkyMed (Paramount+), and Andie MacDowell starrer, The Way Home, 2024’s most watched cable series for women audiences.
Shamim is of South Asian descent and identifies as LGBTQIA+. Her work has always focused on diversity, feminism, social impact and humanism.
She has spoken at TED events worldwide, at the INK Conference in India and DLD in Munich. Corporate speaking events have included Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Disney.
Shamim was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2019. She is also a member of BAFTA, the WGA, and the Director’s Guild of Canada.
Shamim’s fourth feature as writer/director, Polarized, recently won two ‘Best Feature’ awards, including at the Los Angeles Int Film Festival, and releases in the U.S. in 2024.
Her previous features as writer/director include Despite the Falling Snow, starring Rebecca Ferguson and Charles Dance (13 awards). Her first feature I Can’t Think Straight debuted at Palm Springs Film Festival and won 11 awards. Her follow up The World Unseen debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival before garnering 23 awards internationally.
Her latest books, The Athena Protocol and The Shadow Mission, (HarperCollins) are being developed as a series. She is developing three further series concepts of her own, including Redacted, a news/espionage procedural alongside Sphere Media.
As well as YOU, her other series directing credits include HBO Max’s Sort Of, SkyMed (Paramount+), and Andie MacDowell starrer, The Way Home, 2024’s most watched cable series for women audiences.
Shamim is of South Asian descent and identifies as LGBTQIA+. Her work has always focused on diversity, feminism, social impact and humanism.
She has spoken at TED events worldwide, at the INK Conference in India and DLD in Munich. Corporate speaking events have included Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Citibank and Disney.
Shamim was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2019. She is also a member of BAFTA, the WGA, and the Director’s Guild of Canada.