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

Sana’s directorial credits include GUANAJUATO NORTE, winner of a student BAFTA award and acquired by the New Yorker Documentaries. She wrote and directed AWAY, TOGETHER, a visceral film about the outdoors, collaborating with Cinematographer Alana Mejía González, and 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, featuring real families talking about race in their homes. She directed Nike NYC’s Community Champs reels and creative produced Nike Journal’s “Eyekonz,” a short doc about an all-female Lacrosse team in Philadelphia. She is a finalist of the DGA-AICP run Commercial Director’s Diversity Program.

Previously, she worked as a journalist and produced episodic series for BBC Reel, Frontline PBS, HBO and MTV. She’s been featured in i-D magazine, Buzzfeed News, and the New Yorker. As a director focused on empathetic collaboration, she brings real-life stories to the screen with ease and emotion. 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. The perspective of growing up across cultures prompted her first entrepreneurial media venture in third culture expression called This is Worldtown, recognized as a media changemaker by the Inspirit Foundation and driven as a mentorship initiative for women of color visual storytellers in 2018.

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.