Writer, Director and definitely overthinking this.
Sabrina Saleha is a Navajo/Bengali screenwriter and director.
She makes her directorial debut with Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough, about a Navajo/Bengali niece who kneads to find dough-mestic harmony when her aunties face off in a frybread vs. roti showdown. With all the ingredients of her culture, she cooks up her own recipe for belonging. Her film has been supported by Vision Maker Media Creative Shorts Fellowship, Georgia Film Impact Grant and First Peoples Fund Fellowship. It premiered at deadcenter film festival, where it won the audience award for best short.
Sabrina is a 2025 SUNDANCE NATIVE LAB ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE and a 2025 stowe story labs x new mexico film office screenwriting fellow. she is developing her feature Grief Camp, a fantasy-adventure about a rebellious Navajo teen sent to a grief camp that turns out to be a bridge between the living and the dead. inspired by the loss of her younger brother.
She is a 2024 graduate of the NYU Tisch Directing Intensive for Indigenous Voices, a 2023 imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Feature Lab fellow (Netflix), a 2023 Native American Animation Lab Fellow (Sony Animation) and a 2022 Native American Media alliance TV Writer’s Lab fellow (netflix).
She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting from the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in May 2023, receiving scholarships from Warner Bros. Discovery, the American Indian Circle Fellowship, and the Navajo Nation.
As an actress, her recent credits include Barry, Marvel’s Echo, Single Drunk Female, Station 19, the cleaning lady, Panhandle and damascus. She also starred as the lead in the theater production Diné Nishłį (I Am a Sacred Being): A Boarding School Play. Her voiceover work is featured in the PlayStation video game The Foglands.
