A.K. Sandhu

A.K. is a Director, Producer, Cinematographer, and internationally published Photographer. She is the founder of Re–Present Partners, a womxn and BIPOC owned, Oakland-based production company that embraces the expansion of how underrepresented communities are depicted in media. A.K. employs documentary filmmaking and photography to revive absent narratives that have been buried or suppressed. Her work crosses into experimental docu-hybrid modes of storytelling, probing themes such as race, gender, spirituality, and cross-cultural solidarity. She was awarded the 2021 Emerging Artist Award in the State of California. A.K. is a fellow of DocNYC/VC’s 2021-2022 Storytelling Incubator and was selected as part of the inaugural cohort for Represent Media’s Re-Take Oakland 2019–2021 fellowship for emerging BIPOC filmmakers.

A.K. directed, produced, and filmed her short documentary,_ For Love And Legacy_, about the making of the first monument to honor the Black Panther Party. The film premiered on the 2022 film festival circuit during Womxn's History Month. She is also the Co-Director, Producer, and Co-DOP of her first feature documentary, _Sign My Name To Freedom_ (in post-production), and in development for her first episodic South Asian documentary.

Inspired by her father’s photographs of their family, A.K. exited a career in finance to pursue her love for visual storytelling. She has earned degrees from Columbia University and U.C. Berkeley, and is a member of A-Doc, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, CineFemme, and Collective of Documentary Womxn Cinematographers. She speaks English, Punjabi, and Hindi/Urdu.