Meet Sabrina Rani Furminger, host and executive producer

Sabrina Rani Furminger is an award-winning newspaper and digital journalist, Ukrainian Canadian activist, and producer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She produces and hosts the YVR Screen Scene Podcast (which spotlights the shining stars of the Vancouver film and television industry), and hosts the Telus Originals series Doc Talks, where she interviews documentary filmmakers and the subjects of their films. With her husband Paul, Sabrina owns and operates Fish Flight Entertainment, a boutique animation, post-production, and visual effects studio on Granville Island. 

Sabrina was born in Montreal, is a graduate of Queen’s University, and is Ukrainian and South Asian. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, she’s raised more than $140,000 for Ukrainian humanitarian relief through screenings, concerts, workshops, and online auctions. In February 2025, she co-produced (with Helen Lysenko) Freedom Salon / Салон Волі, a two-week exhibition that highlighted work created by Ukrainian artists since the full-scale invasion.

Sabrina sits on the board of directors for the Vancouver branch of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. She is currently in production on Our Hall, her feature-length documentary about the Ukrainian Labour Temple that her family co-founded in Lachine, Quebec in the first half of the 20th century. The documentary is funded in part by the Shevchenko Foundation.

Photos by Ivan Skufinsky