Shehani is an award-winning director based in London and founder of Indigo Storm, a studio focusing on immersive storytelling. Her recent projects include ‘Built by Sound’, a location-based multiplayer mixed reality experience about British Asians growing up in the 1980’s and ‘Vocalize’ – an interactive experience about voice cloning with Sir Stephen Fry. A leader in the XR industry, she co-produced and presented the StoryFutures Academy podcast and has worked for leading studios such as Nexus, Universal Everything and Factory 42. Recent VR projects include ‘The Museum of Imagined Futures’ and ‘Buried in the Rock’. Her work has toured to international festivals such as SXSW, CPH and the Venice Film Festival.

In 2019, she produced ‘The Waiting Room VR’ directed by BAFTA-award winning Victoria Mapplebeck which took an unflinching look at life with breast cancer which won the IDFA Doclab Award for Digital Storytelling. Previously, she held a number of roles at The Guardian, including Head of Audio where she oversaw podcast output. From 2016-18 she directed VR experiences for the Guardian’s in-house VR studio that were rooted in journalism and paired with innovative storytelling. The studio experimented with interaction, motion capture, scanning, animation and 360 shooting to enable new perspectives on subjects like asylum, autism and solitary confinement.