Film
Away, Together
Written and Directed by: Sana A. Malik
Winner: Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Best New Mexico Narrative Short
Official Selection: WUTI, Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
Watch Now on the New Yorker's Documentary Channel
Written, Directed, Produced by: Ingrid Holmquist and Sana A. Malik
Camera and Editing: Ingrid Holmquist and Sana A. Malik
Winner: BAFTA Student Film Award 2019; Emerging Filmmaker Award Fayetteville Film Festival
Digital Media
Guanajuato Norte (2019)
Co-Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor
A man from Guanajuato, Mexico who crossed the border to work on a farm in Connecticut contends with being away from his family for years to help support their dreams and build a new life for them.. Watch now on the New Yorker Documentary Channel.
Director, Camera, Producer, Editor
Go to Polk County, Florida and eat at the town’s iconic British tea room. For 30 years, an immigrant family from Pakistan has run this popular tea room that comes to life with antique lace, curated china and a mother’s beloved recipes.
BBC Reel: The Hijab-Friendly Hair Salon (2019)
Director, Camera, Producer, Editor
For many hijab-clad women, getting your hair done in a regular salon can prove to be an isolating experience. One woman decided to address that by starting the first women’s only salon in New York. Now, her business serves as a safe-haven where hijabi women can be pampered.
Serving Time (2015)
Director, Producer
Life after Riker’s Island looks bleak for Frederick, a young man trying to make his way back into one of the most divided cities in the world, New York City. His attempts to find a job after years of incarceration lead to closed doors and unreturned phone calls. Without opportunities allowing for easier re-entry, the city’s recidivism rate is among the highest in the country. Now, a Maple-themed food truck — inspired by Quebecois cuisine — employs men like Frederick, providing them a chance to break away from a cycle of poverty and crime.
Bio
Sana A. Malik is a director, producer, journalist and writer living in New York City. She co-directed the short doc GUANAJUATO NORTE, winner of the 2019 BAFTA Student Film Award, streaming on the New Yorker Magazine's Documentary Channel. She wrote and directed the short fiction film AWAY, TOGETHER that won awards at the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival and Toronto Reel Asian Film Fest.
Her production credits include Frontline PBS, the BBC, AXIOS on HBO and MTV. She is the founder of an independent media platform for women of color visual storytellers called This is Worldtown. Sana founded an award-winning media and events company called This is Worldtown that is focused on Women of Color visual storytellers upending simplistic media narratives. Sana is constantly championing new ways of creating and thinking about more equitable media production, and she is a Member/Owner of the Meerkat Media Co-operative, working on film projects with clients ranging from Sesame Street to Netflix.
Before making a full-time switch to documentary and journalistic filmmaking, Sana worked in public health risk communication in Tanzania and the U.K. and consulted for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, the University of London (LSHTM), and the University of Toronto. Sana grew up between London, U.K., Lahore, Pakistan and eastern Canada. She is a part of BAFTA's Newcomer Talent Program, a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective and Brown Girls Doc Mafia.
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