Meena Nanji (Kenya)

Meena Nanji is Kenyan-born of Indian heritage, based in Los Angeles. She is an award-winning director/producer of feature documentaries, experimental and fiction shorts. Her work has been recognized by the Sundance Documentary Fund, Just Films, Perspective Fund, IDA, IDFA Bertha Fund. Her films have screened on television and at film festivals internationally and have focused on social-issue and gender rights and representation, including projects filmed in India, Afghanistan and Kenya. She is the Co-director/Co-Producer of the newly completed documentary, Our Land, Our Freedom, about a woman unearthing British colonial atrocities in Kenya, and her ongoing struggle for land rights.