Sanjna Selva is a writer, documentary filmmaker, photographer and audio producer currently based out of New York. Her work and passions have been strongly informed by issues of identity, migration, belonging, and childhood.
Sanjna’s work has allowed her to live in Singapore, Nepal, New York, New Orleans, Tunisia, London and most recently, Malaysia. With roots in documentary photography, she branched into documentary filmmaking and production in 2017 and later, managed the social activism podcast and radio show Pass The Mic. Sanjna has worked in the documentary film industry producing, editing, in social media marketing and most recently, as junior associate producer on award-winning filmmaker Jasmin Lopez’s film Silent Beauty.
Her photography and film have been featured and recognized by the International Center of Photography (ICP), MediaStorm, Himalayan Geographic, the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Project of Saratoga Springs, the John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative, and the Tang Art Museum. She was a student fellow at the 2019 Skidmore Storytellers’ Institute and is a proud member of the Brown Girls Doc Mafia and D-Word film collectives.
Sanjna is the current editor-in-chief of Skidmore News and will graduate from Skidmore College in 2021 with a B.A. in International Affairs and Documentary Film.
