SABRINA RANI FURMINGER
Host & Executive Producer
Sabrina Rani Furminger (born Sabrina Rani Mehra) is a film industry journalist, podcaster, producer, and content creator based in Vancouver, Canada. She hosts the YVR Screen Scene Podcast and has written about the film industry for the Westender, the Vancouver Courier, and MONTECRISTO Magazine. Sabrina is an in-demand event moderator (National Film Board of Canada; Vancouver International Film Festival; Women in Film and Television Vancouver; DOXA Documentary Film Festival; Vancouver Just For Laughs Film Festival; Vancouver Asian Film Festival; Pacific Screenwriting Program) and film festival juror (VIFF, Crazy8s, Run N’ Gun, Directors Guild of Canada – British Columbia District Council). She hosted an occasional feminist film series at VIFF Centre called Her Stories: Women Call the Shots, and won a Women in Film & Television Vancouver Spotlight Award (now GEMS Vancouver) in 2016, Ma Murray Journalism Awards in 2017 and 2018, and multiple Communicator Awards in 2021, 2022, and 2023.
In November 2019, she hosted the UBCP/ACTRA Awards Red Carpet – and in November 2020, she hosted and produced the first UBCP/ACTRA Awards Virtual Red Carpet (the red carpet special received two nominations for 2021 Leo Awards), and hosted and produced the second virtual edition in 2021 (receiving a nomination for Best Host for the 2022 Leo Awards). She hosted and produced the in-person 2022 UBCP/ACTRA Awards Red Carpet Special, released in January 2023. In 2020, Sabrina was the only Canadian semi-finalist in iHeartRadio’s international #TheNextGreatPodcast competition for a podcast entitled Cringe. In June 2021, she hosted and produced Reel Talk About Race in B.C. Film, a YouTube series about white supremacy in the Vancouver film and television industry; the web series was funded in part by Human Rights Internet.
In March 2022 and 2023, Sabrina co-hosted and co-produced (with actor Adrian Petriw) YVR Screen Scene For Ukraine, gala evenings and online auctions in support of Ukrainian humanitarian relief (the project continues in the form of Tryzub pendant sales benefitting rehabilitation programs for Ukrainian children). In April 2024, Sabrina produced the inaugural YVR Screen Scene Live @ VFS, a live version of the podcast featuring Amanda Tapping, Lexa Doig, Rukiya Bernard and Ryan Robbins that was a fundraiser for trauma therapy for grieving kids in Ukraine. To date, the various YVR Screen Scene For Ukraine initiatives have raised more than $140,000 for Ukrainian humanitarian relief.
In May 2021, Sabrina hosted YVR Screen Scene For India, a star-studded online benefit in support of COVID-19 relief efforts in India. The event raised $8400 for three charities providing disaster relief throughout India.
Sabrina has taught workshops about media relations through The Drama Class. She is a graduate of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She co-owns Fish Flight Entertainment, a boutique animation and visual effects studio located on Vancouver’s Granville Island. Sabrina volunteers with the Ukrainian Canadian Advocacy Group and sits on the Board of Directors for Crazy8s.
Sabrina is Ukrainian and South Asian, was born in Montreal, and lives in Vancouver’s Kitsilano neighborhood with her husband Paul, daughter Mariana, and two cats (Wade Wilson and Vanessa).