Sana A. Malik is an Emmy-nominated director, writer and producer.

Sana’s directorial credits include the BAFTA-winning short doc, GUANAJUATO NORTE, sold to the New Yorker documentary site.  She wrote and directed AWAY, TOGETHER, a visceral film about the outdoors  supported by the North Face’s Move Mountains Film Grant.

As an owner and filmmaker at Meerkat Media Co-operative, an award-winning production company based in New York, her documentarian eye is a huge asset in commercial and short-form video work. She was an executive producer and director of the Emmy-nominated Sesame Street Racial Justice Initiative series as well as Art21 Season 12 for PBS. She was a finalist of the DGA-AICP run Commercial Director’s Diversity Program.

Previously, she worked as a journalist and produced episodic series for NatGeo, BBC Reel, Frontline PBS, HBO and MTV. Starting her career leading public health communications campaigns internationally, Sana’s curiosity, creativity and agility show in the breadth of her work. But her particularly global P.O.V. was most likely honed consuming an absurd mash-up of visual content in her early life spent between London, UK, Lahore, Pakistan and Cape Breton, Canada.

Sana has a Masters in Documentary Film from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and degrees from the University of London (LSHTM), and the University of Toronto. You can find her via the BAFTA Newcomer Talent Initiative, the Brooklyn Filmmakers’ Collective, and Brown Girls Doc Mafia. She also teaches and mentors emerging storytellers through the Institute of Contemporary Photography, Columbia University, CUNY J-School, and her initiative This is Worldtown.