Governing Council
Jabeen Merchant
Governing Council
Mumbai-based film editor, script consultant, and teacher with more than 25 years of experience across Indian cinema, television, streaming, and documentary filmmaking.
Biography
Jabeen Merchant is a film editor, script consultant, and teacher based in Mumbai.
Trained at the Film & Television Institute of India, she has more than 25 years of experience in the Indian film and television industry.
Her work spans mainstream Bollywood, art-house cinema, television, web shows, short fiction, and documentary films.
She is particularly known for her work as editor and co-scriptwriter on feature-length documentaries in collaboration with independent filmmakers.
Her documentary work has travelled extensively to international film festivals and has been broadcast in the USA, Japan, and Europe.