Ian Iqbal Rashid has written widely for British television including the critically acclaimed, cult hit series This Life, which won the BAFTA, Royal Television Society, and Evening Standard Awards, and for which he and his co-writers won the prestigious Writers' Guild of England Award. He has written and directed two short films: Surviving Sabu (Hindi Picture/Arts Council of England), which won festival prizes in Vancouver, Zanzibar, and Mumbai; and Stag (Martin Pope Productions/BBC Films), which was selected for Time Out's Gala at the 2002 London Film Festival.