Talent Development & Special Projects Director
Telephone: (415) 863-0814 x131
Email: sapana [at] caamedia [dot] org
Sapana Sakya’s background is in journalism and documentary filmmaking. She is the Talent Development & Special Projects Director at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) designing filmmaker programs through funding, fellowship, and convenings like the CAAM Fellowship program, the Filmmaker Summit and the Complicating Narratives regional gatherings. She partners with documentary field colleagues on initiatives that highlight BIPOC storytellers including diverse, nuanced Asian American experiences across the country. In her previous work with CAAM, she served as Public Media Director, overseeing funding for independent filmmakers. In Nepal, she worked with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (kimff) to create kimff Doc Lab supporting Nepali filmmakers, uplifting underrepresented communities. She trained with distinguished filmmaker Jon Else at the University of California, Berkeley and has since produced and directed several documentaries (Daughters of Everest, Red White Blue November, Oklahoma Home). Prior to documentary, she was a reporter at The Bangkok Post and The Kathmandu Post, she also worked in communications at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).