Sana A. Malik Director
Sana A. Malik is an Emmy-nominated director, writer, and producer. Sana’s directorial credits include the BAFTA-winning short and New Yorker documentary showcased film, GUANAJUATO NORTE. She wrote and directed AWAY, TOGETHER, a film supported by the North Face’s Move Mountains Film Grant. As an owner and filmmaker at the production cooperative Meerkat Media, she was an executive producer and director of the Sesame Street Racial Justice Initiative.
Previously, she worked as a journalist and produced episodic series for NatGeo, BBC Reel, Frontline PBS, HBO and MTV and her early life was spent between London, UK, Lahore, Pakistan, and Cape Breton, Canada. Sana has a Master’s in Documentary Film from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and degrees from the University of London (LSHTM) and the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers’ Collective, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia. She also teaches and mentors emerging storytellers through the Institute of Contemporary Photography, Columbia University, and the the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.