Film

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.