Anam Abbas is a Pakistani/Canadian filmmaker and runs Other Memory Media. As a producer and DOP her first feature "Showgirls of Pakistan", winner of the Best Pitch Award at the 2016 Hotdocs Forum, premiered in competition at IDFA 2020 and was released globally by VICE in 2021 and has over 2 million views. Anam's first feature documentary as a Director, "This Stained Dawn", supported by the Canada Arts Council in 2020, follows the feminist activists who organise the "Aurat March" in Pakistan. It premiered in International Competition at the 2021 Sheffield Doc Fest and has won awards at Toronto Reel Asian, Women’s Voices Now and PAME Nepal.
Abbas is an alumna of Locarno Film Festival's Open Doors Hub 2017, 2018 Berlinale Talents, 2019 Film Independent Global Media Makers, 2020 Berlinale Talents Project Market Fellow and 2020 Cannes Producers' Network. She is a 2020 Telefilm Canada Talents to Watch Grant awardee for Zarrar Kahn directed art house horror "In Flames", which premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes 2023. The film is being represented by XYZ films for world sales. She is also one of the founding members of the Documentary Association of Pakistan (DAP).
