Sara Khaki
director
Sara Khaki is an Iranian-American documentary director, producer and editor, committed to telling stories promoting gender equality. She studied cinematography at the University of Maryland, Baltimore and at the School of Visual Arts, where she got a master's degree in social documentary film. She made the short film "Our Iranian Lockdown" (2020) and co-directed the Netflix Original "Convergence: Courage in a Crisis" (2021), which won an Emmy. Her newest film "Cutting Through Rocks" received an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary. As a grant recipient of the Sundance Film Institute, Chicken & Egg Films and Firelight Media, she continues to fight for gender equality.