Sapana Sakya

Sapana Sakya’s background is in journalism and documentary filmmaking. She recently returned from four years in Nepal, working with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (kimff) to create kimff Doc Lab supporting Nepali filmmakers. Currently, she is the Talent Development & Special Projects Manager at the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM). Sapana designs and coordinates the filmmaker support programs including the Filmmaker Summit and CAAM Fellowship. Additionally, she is instrumental in launching CAAM's South Initiative. In her previous work with CAAM, she was Public Media Director. 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). She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, California with her partner and two daughters.