Sabaah combines nuance and optimism with cultural relevance to tell stories that inform, uplift, and engage audiences.

She made her directorial debut at the Sundance film festival, with the feature length documentary Whose Streets? The film was supported by Ford, MacArthur and other foundations, and nominated for Peabody, Critic’s Choice, Gotham and NAACP Image awards, as well as festival honors worldwide. Whose Streets? chronicles the experiences of activists living in Ferguson, Missouri when Michael Brown Jr. was killed.

Whose Streets? was distributed theatrically by Magnolia Pictures, and broadcast for television by POV.

In 2020, Sabaah wrote the series finale of HBO’s betty, a critically acclaimed comedy series about a crew of young female skateboarders in NYC.

Her second feature documentary Look at Me: XXXTENTACION premiered at SXSW 2022 and is now streaming on Hulu.

From 2022-2023 Sabaah acted as the Interim director of the Firelight Media documentary lab, where she mentored BIPOC directors making their 1st or 2nd feature documentary.

Sabaah is a 2022 Pew fellow and a 2023 Chicken & Egg Breakthrough awardee.

RATIFIED, the third feature documentary helmed by Sabaah, alongside co-director Deborah Riley Draper, covers the hundred year fight to enshrine gender equality in the constitution, and premiered at Bronzelens film festival in 2024.

Sabaah was born in Los Angeles and raised in Hawaii . She graduated from Columbia university as a pre-medical student. the desire to do healing work at a collective scale evolved into a unique storytelling practice that is informed by principles of behavioral science and social justice.