Sadia Shepard is a Pakistani American filmmaker and author. She is the
author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors,
Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home, which was published by the Penguin
Press in 2008. She is the daughter of an American father, architect
Richard Shepard, and a Pakistani American mother - artist, designer
and educator, Samina Quraeshi.She received a BA from Wesleyan
University, where she studied with Jeanine Basinger, an MA from
Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to India in 2001.
Shepard's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York
Times, The Forward, Wall Street Journal magazine, and The Indian
Express. She has taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program
at Columbia University. She received an MFA in Creative Writing at
Hunter College. She is a Kundiman fellow and has received writing
residencies from the Vermont Studio Centerand Yaddo. She is an
Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University. She
lectures widely on the topics of the Jews of India, Growing up
Interfaith, and Researching and Writing the Family Story through the
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau.Shepard produces documentary
films. She produced R.J. Cutler's The September Issue, a documentary
portrait of the making of Vogue, which won the Excellence in
Cinematography Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the
Audience Award at the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors.In Search of the Bene
Israel is an observational documentary she directed and produced,
following modern descendants of the ancient Mumbai Jewish community,
to which she is related on her mother's mother's side.
author of The Girl from Foreign: A Search for Shipwrecked Ancestors,
Lost Loves, and a Sense of Home, which was published by the Penguin
Press in 2008. She is the daughter of an American father, architect
Richard Shepard, and a Pakistani American mother - artist, designer
and educator, Samina Quraeshi.She received a BA from Wesleyan
University, where she studied with Jeanine Basinger, an MA from
Stanford University and was a Fulbright Scholar to India in 2001.
Shepard's writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The New York
Times, The Forward, Wall Street Journal magazine, and The Indian
Express. She has taught in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Program
at Columbia University. She received an MFA in Creative Writing at
Hunter College. She is a Kundiman fellow and has received writing
residencies from the Vermont Studio Centerand Yaddo. She is an
Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Wesleyan University. She
lectures widely on the topics of the Jews of India, Growing up
Interfaith, and Researching and Writing the Family Story through the
Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau.Shepard produces documentary
films. She produced R.J. Cutler's The September Issue, a documentary
portrait of the making of Vogue, which won the Excellence in
Cinematography Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and the
Audience Award at the 2010 Cinema Eye Honors.In Search of the Bene
Israel is an observational documentary she directed and produced,
following modern descendants of the ancient Mumbai Jewish community,
to which she is related on her mother's mother's side.
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