Cherien Dabis

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About Cherien Dabis
Cherien Dabis (Arabic: شيرين دعيبس‎) is a Palestinian American independent filmmaker. She was named one of "Ten Directors to Watch" by Variety in 2009.
She made her feature writing and directorial debut with Amreeka, which premiered to both audience and critical acclaim at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, opened New York’s New Director’s/New Films series and won the FIPRESCI award at the Cannes Director’s Fortnight. Dabis’ original script was selected to participate in the 2005 Sundance Middle East Screenwriter’s Lab, Film Independent Director’s Lab, Los Angeles Film Festival’s Fast Track program and 2007 Berlinale Co-Production Market. At Tribeca All Access in 2007, Dabis was honored with the first ever L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Vision Award, and that same year, she won the Dubai Co-Production Market’s top award. Dabis is also openly gay and has focused on lesbian-themed work in much of her career.
Dabis is also an accomplished television writer and producer. She worked on Showtime Network’s original series The L Word for three seasons. A graduate of Columbia University’s Masters of Fine Arts film program, she has written, directed and produced several short films. Make A Wish (2006) premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival as well as Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival where it won the Prix de la Presse and Mention Spéciale du Jury. The film went on to win top awards in Dubai, Rotterdam, Cairo, Chicago and Aspen. Dabis received several generous grants in support of the film, including the National Geographic’s All Roads Film Project Seed Grant, the Jerome Foundation’s New York City Media Arts Grant as well as the New York State Council on the Art’s Electronic Media and Film Distribution Grant. She is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Playwriting/Screenwriting from New York Foundation for the Arts, and more recently, Renew Media/Tribeca Film Institute’s prestigious Media Artist Fellowship, founded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
As a graduate film student, Dabis was granted several distinguished awards, including the Zaki Gordon Award for Excellence in Screenwriting, the Institute for Humane Studies Film and Fiction Scholarship and the New York Women in Film and Television Scholarship.
The first of her family born in the U.S., Dabis was raised by Palestinian/Jordanian immigrant parents. She grew up in Ohio and Jordan but currently resides in New York City.

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