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{{Short description|Indian filmmaker (born 1956)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Use Indian English|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nina Sabnani
| image = Nina Sabnani at National Institute of Design Ahmedabad.jpg
| caption = Nina Sabnani at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1956}}
| birth_place = [[Ahmedabad]], [[Gujarat]]
| alma_mater = [[National Institute of Design]], [[Syracuse University]]
| known_for = [[Animation]], [[Illustration]]
| awards = Rajat Kamal Award
}}
'''Nina Sabnani''' (born 1956) is an Indian animation filmmaker, illustrator and an educator. She is known for her films which blend together [[animation]] and [[ethnography]]. Collaboration with diverse ethnic communities as well as storytelling with words and imagery have been her research interests.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nina Sabnani |url=https://nalandaway.org/team/nina-sabnani/ |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=NalandaWay |language=en-US}}</ref>

Sabnani has taught for more than two decades at the [[National Institute of Design|National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad]]. Along with Animation Design, Sabnani also served as the coordinator of the New Media Design when it was introduced in 2001 at [[National Institute of Design]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2001-09-01 |title=FIRST PERSONNID launches PGD in New Media |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news/-first-personbrnid-launches-pgd-in-new-media/articleshow/706954120.cms |access-date=2023-11-25 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> She is currently a professor at the [[IDC School of Design|Industrial Design Centre (IDC), IIT Bombay]].<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2017-11-09 |title=Sabnani, Nina |url=http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/people/faculty/sabnani-nina |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=IDC School of Design |language=en}}</ref>

== Academic background ==
Sabnani graduated in painting from the [[University of Baroda Faculty of Fine Arts|Faculty of Fine Arts, MSU, Vadodara]] and completed a certificate program in [[Animation|animation film making]] at the NID, Ahmedabad. She received a [[Fulbright Program|Fulbright Fellowship]] in 1997 to purse post-graduate studies in [[film]] at [[Syracuse University|Syracuse University, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nina Sabnani {{!}} DER Filmmaker Bio |url=https://www.der.org/resources/filmmaker-bios/nina-sabnani/ |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=www.der.org |language=en-US}}</ref> Her doctoral research at the IDC, IIT Bombay was based on [[Rajasthan]]'s Kaavad storytelling tradition.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Sabnani |first=Nina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T6vuoQEACAAJ |title=Kaavad Tradition of Rajasthan: A Portable Pilgrimage |date=2014 |publisher=Niyogi Books |isbn=978-93-83098-32-3 |language=en}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Title
|-
|1982
|''Drawing! Drawing!''
|-
|1984
|''Shubh Vivah''
|-
|1987
|''A Summer Story''
|-
|1988
|''Badhte Kadam''
|-
|1989-90
|''All About Nothing''
|-
|1990
|''One Day in Fatehpur Sikri''
|-
|1994
|''Patents for Progress''
|-
|2005
|''Mukund and Riaz''
|-
|2009
|''The Makers of Tales''
|-
|2009
|''Tanko Bole Chhe (The Stitches Speak)''
|-
|2011
|''Baat Wahi Hai (It's The Same Story)''
|-
|2012
|''Bemata''
|-
|2013
|''Thank You Many Times''
|-
|2016
|''Hum Chitra Banate Hain (We Make Images)''
|}

== Bibliography ==

* Sabnani, Nina. Stitching Stories: The Art of Embroidery in Gujarat. India, Tulika Publishers, 2011.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sabnani |first=Nina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6F5fVuQULo4C |title=Stitching Stories: The Art of Embroidery in Gujarat |date=2011 |publisher=Tulika Books |isbn=978-81-8146-961-8 |language=en}}</ref>
* Sabnani, Nina. Kaavad Tradition of Rajasthan: A Portable Pilgrimage. India, Niyogi Books, 2014.<ref name=":0" />

== Awards ==
[[File:Pranab Mukherjee presenting the Rajat Kamal Award to the Director Ms. Nina Sabnani for the Best Animation, Film Hum Chitra Banate Hai, in Non-Feature Film Section, at the 64th National Film Awards Function, in New Delhi.jpg|thumb|Nina Sabnani receiving Rajat Kamal Award from President Pranab Mukherjee]]
* 2017 - Rajat Kamal Award for Best Animation in the film ''Hum Chitra Banate Hai'', in Non-Feature Film Section.<ref>{{cite press_release |title=64th National Film Awards |url=http://www.dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf |publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals |access-date=23 July 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606051143/http://dff.nic.in/writereaddata/NFA64PressNote2016.pdf |archive-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
* 2018 - Lifetime Achievement Award for Illustration by Tata Trusts at Tata Lit Live, Mumbai<ref>{{Cite web |title=Film-maker Ketan Mehta, Nina Sabnani to be honoured at Animation Masters Summit 2021 |url=https://www.onmanorama.com/entertainment/art-and-culture/2021/04/29/ketan-mehta-nina-sabnani-to-be-honoured-at-animation-masters-summit-2021.html |access-date=2022-03-27 |website=OnManorama}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Nina Sabnani}}
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/ninamsabnani YouTube Channel]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efF7Q5UO8b8 Interview on The Story of Indian Animation]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIOtBQzwAc Podcast on Landscape of Indian Animation]

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[[Category:Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda alumni]]
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