Sanjna Selva
Documentary Filmmaker & Multimedia Journalist
- Role
- Distribution Associate at Hbo
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sanjna Selva
Sanjna Selva (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and multimedia journalist based in New York City who is experienced in all aspects of video production. She has a proven track record of capturing quality, emotive footage, scripting, and building out a complex story at the edit bay with both tight turnarounds and longer lead times. Her work has been featured on PBS, CBS New York, EST Media, Defense News, and the International Center of Photography. Her directorial debut,\"Call Me Anytime, I’m Not Leaving the House,\" about two sisters separated by the war in Ukraine, was acquired by PBS for broadcast on POV Shorts—and was also the first film to receive two broadcasts since the start of the program’s five season run. Her work has screened at numerous festivals and spaces including DCTV’s Firehouse Cinema, Woodstock Film Festival, DC DOX, and Indie Memphis Film Festival within the U.S, as well as at film festivals in France, Italy, Romania, the Netherlands, and Ukraine, where it has received best short documentary and audience awards. Sanjna is a graduate of the M.S. program in journalism with a specialization in documentary film at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a 2020 Double Exposure Film Festival grantee, and a 2019 Skidmore-MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute fellow. She is also a member of A-DOC, the Asian American Journalists Association, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and Video Consortium. Sanjna is presently working on her next documentary,\"Spa City Revolutionary,\" which investigates a resurgence of police and FBI surveillance of Black Lives Matter activists post-George Floyd in small-town America—a town she lived in for five years. She is also producing a feature documentary that explores the loneliness of dissent amidst the erosion of democracy in India, and the incredible courage it takes for minorities and dissidents to push back and survive. Camera experience: Sony: FX6, FS7, FS5, Canon: C300, XF100, Mark series. Software:(high proficiency) Adobe Premiere, Photoshop; Adobe Audition, After Effects Languages:(fluent) English, Malay;(working) Arabic, Nepali. Contact: s•••••@aubinpictures.com
Experience
Distribution Associate
Jan 2023 — Present · NY, US
Responsible for creating the vision and strategy for internal and external communications for the feature documentary \'You Were My First Boyfriend,\' distributed by HBO Documentary Films. Handle film festival logistics, deliverables, and media requests; coordinate post-production workflow; prepare monthly newsletters, social media schedule, website branding, and press releases.
Education
Columbia University - Graduate School of Journalism
Master of Science - MS, Journalism and Documentary
2021 — 2022
Skidmore College
Bachelor of Arts - BA, International Relations and Affairs, 3.96
2017 — 2021
King's College London
English Literature and Gender Studies
2020 — 2020
Lapin yliopisto
Social Work in a Global Context
2018
School for International Training
Tunisia & Italy: Political and Religious Integration in the Mediterranean, 4.0
2019 — 2019
Anglo-Chinese Junior College
Singapore-Cambridge GCE A Levels, Arts
2014 — 2015
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