Sahar Jahani

Sahar Jahani is an American writer, known for working on several popular television series, including 13 Reasons Why, and Ramy.^[1] In 2020 she was hired to write an adaptation of Uzma Jalaluddin's novel Hana Khan Carries On for Pascal Pictures.^[2]

Sahar Jahani
Nationality	American
Occupation	screenwriter

Educational career

Jahani graduated from film studies at the University of California at Irvine, in 2013.^[1][3] In 2019, as a successful alumnus, she was invited to join a panel on the changing landscape of film/television creation and distribution at Zotfest, the school's student film festival.^[4]

Film career

In February 2019 Jahani was a founding member of Muslim Women in Film & Television.^[5]

Filmography

Sahar Jahani's filmography

title	role	year	notes
Grey Matter	director	2017	Earned her the 2017 Islamic Scholarship Fund Film Grant.[6]
Ramy	screenwriter	2019	A comedy series about Muslim-Americans, broadcast on Hulu.[7]
13 Reasons Why	screenwriter	2019	A series revolving around teens struggling with the surprising suicide of a peer.
Just One Night	director	2019	A short film that premiered at the Bentonville Film Festival in 2019.[8]

References

1. "Ramy and 13 Reasons Why". UCI School of Humanities. Archived from the original on 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2020-05-17. Currently, she is working on Netflix's hit, "13 Reasons Why," which is based on the bestselling novel of the same name.
2. "Noor Theatre Announces Heather Raffo, Sylvia Khoury, And Sahar Jahani As Part Of The Second Pop Collab COHORT". Broadway World. 2020-05-15. Archived from the original on 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
3. "UCI student film festival to celebrate 20th anniversary with special production June 3". University of California at Irvine News. 2019-05-29. Archived from the original on 2020-01-02. Retrieved 2020-05-17. Speakers will include Desha Dauchan, a filmmaker/writer and UCI assistant professor of teaching in film & media studies; cinematographer Allen E. Ho '07; Sahar Jahani '13, a writer/director who has worked on the Hulu show "Ramy"; film producer Ivan Williams, MBA '96; and director/producer Roxy Shih '10.
4. Lilly Nguyen (2019-06-01). "UC Irvine's Zotfest student film festival returns for 20th year". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2020-02-03. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
5. Nisha Gopalan (2019-05-01). "Black Gay Brunch, Muslim Women in Film & TV and Hollywood's New Push for Inclusive Networking". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2019-09-19. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
6. "Talent Guide: Sahar Jahani, Bio". Film Independent. 2018. Archived from the original on 2020-05-18. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
7. Gazelle Emami (2019-04-19). "There's Never Been a Show Like Ramy How a weird, personal, sexually complicated, and yes, Muslim-American comedy, made it to TV". Vulture.com. Archived from the original on 2020-03-03. Retrieved 2020-05-17.
8. Dino-Ray Ramos (2019-05-08). "Netflix's 'Good Sam' To Make World Premiere At Bentonville Film Festival; 'Blinded By The Light' Added To Lineup". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-05-17.