Sanjna Selva is an award-winning documentary filmmaker originally from Malaysia, now based in New York City. Her debut short film, ‘Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving the House,’ about two sisters separated by the war in Ukraine, was acquired by PBS for the POV Shorts program in Spring 2023. Her work has screened at numerous festivals and venues including DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, Woodstock Film Festival, and Indie Memphis Film Festival within the US, as well as at film festivals in France, Romania, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, where she has received best short documentary and audience awards. Sanjna began her career as associate producer on the Sundance-supported feature documentary ‘Silent Beauty.’ Her work has also been featured in CBS New York, EST Media, Defense News, and the International Center of Photography among others. Sanjna has been supported by the Skidmore MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the South Asian Journalists Association, and the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival.

Email: sanjna.s@columbia.edu

Brendan McInerney is a documentary filmmaker seeking the unexplored aspects of race and class in the United States. His work has allowed him to learn about small, rural communities in Moldova, Colombia, Ireland and the United States. He directed, produced, shot, and edited “Criminal Intelligence,” a short film about how an erroneous facial recognition match led to a wrongful arrest. Previously, he attended the Eddie Adams Workshop and the Missouri Photo Workshop. He has received support from Double Exposure Film Festival, the Queens Council on the Arts, the American Society of Media Professionals. He spent almost a decade working as a digital and lighting technician for photographers such as Diana Markosian and Bruce Gilden.

Email: bm3069@columbia.edu