Filmmaker, Creative Impact Producer

NYC, U.S.A

Sriya Sarkar is a multidisciplinary director and creative impact producer. She has worked across digital, film, and theater, with a focus on advocacy, impact, and political spaces. Her creative work has contributed to winning clemency for the wrongfully incarcerated, amplifying millions of petition signers' voices for racial justice, and destigmatizing abortion through live comedy.

 

As a multidisciplinary director and producer, her work has been mounted at the Edinburgh Fringe and played at theaters and film festivals globally. Her most recent projects include the short documentary “Coming Home,” about a family impacted by a loved one’s wrongful incarceration due to a legal loophole. It will premiere at San Quentin Film Festival, the first ever film festival to be held inside a prison.