Sabine El Gemayel is a writer, director, and editor whose work focuses on character-driven stories at the intersection of culture, politics, and social realism. Born in Tehran to a Lebanese father and a French mother, she grew up between the Iranian Revolution and the Lebanese Civil War before settling in Montreal and later Los Angeles. Her multicultural background informs a body of work grounded in realism, moral complexity, and human contradiction. Her projects have been supported by fellowships from Hedgebrook and DreamAgo. Her screenplay Hadiya was a semi-finalist for the Athena Film Festival’s Abortion Pipeline Grant, nominated at Breaking Through the Lens (2022), and selected for JETS (Junior Entertainment Talent Slate), supported by Telefilm Canada, at Berlinale 2025. She works as a development consultant for Film Independent in Los Angeles, has mentored editors at the Royal Film Commission of Jordan’s Mosaic Post Lab (2025), and has served on the jury of the Jordan Film Fund (2024). As an editor, her credits include 1982, Lebanon’s official Oscar submission (TIFF, Cannes, AFI), and The Olive Harvest, Palestine’s Oscar submission. As a filmmaker, her work (Niloofar, Generation Zapped) has screened internationally at Berlinale, Cannes Cinéphiles, AFI Fest, Montreal World FF, Dubai IFF, and beyond. She is currently developing a North American feature drama produced by Maytham Jbara and Jonathan Vanger, and a French-language feature produced by Sophie Roudaut and Jean Bréhat.