dir bio: Sawera Jahan is a visual artist who graduated as a major in painting from the National College of Arts in 2019. She kick started her career as a children’s book illustrator at Orenda pvt ltd in 2020. Her work later expanded to the medium of animation at Puffball Studios, where she worked as assistant artist on the award-winning short film Swipe (2020), and has made her directorial debut in Seabirds (2022) from the Lost Migration series. Sawera is currently animating videos for Shehri Pakistan that aim to spread awareness about various social issues in a humorous tone.


Films shown in Divvy Film Festival 2023,

Divvy Film Festival London & Pakistan 2024

Sea Birds
dir: Sawera Jahan | Puffball studios & Project Dastaan
run time: 7 mins
production year: 2022
animated short by Project Dastaan, screenplay by Omi Zola Gupta
synopsis: Over an intimate conversation whilst cooking with her grandmother, eight-year-old Nithya learns of her
family's journey from Burma to Tamil Nadu during WW2.