Jabeen Merchant
Biography
Jabeen Merchant is an Indian film editor, script consultant, and educator based in Mumbai. She works across fiction and non-fiction projects and has more than 25 years of experience in the Indian film and television industry.
Trained at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), she has worked on a wide range of productions, including mainstream Bollywood films, independent cinema, television shows, web series, short fiction and documentaries.
Jabeen is particularly recognised for her work as an editor and co-scriptwriter on several feature-length documentaries, collaborating with some of India's leading independent filmmakers. Her documentary projects have been screened at film festivals around the world and broadcast in the United States, Japan and Europe.
Alongside her editing career, she also works as a script consultant and teaches filmmaking, bringing her extensive industry experience to emerging filmmakers.
