Shareen Anderson

Shareen Anderson is an award-winning producer, director, and showrunner based in New York City. She's developed and produced a wide-range of documentary films and series for networks, such as A&E, PBS, Netflix, CNN, Al Jazeera English, Food Network, Travel Channel, Channel 4 UK, Oxygen, Lifetime, National Geographic, and Discovery. She created and executive produced "The Murder of Laci Peterson", a six-part limited documentary series for A&E, which won a silver medal at New York Festivals International Television and Film Awards. She also created and executive produced "Saving Soweto", an eight-part documentary series for Al Jazeera English, which took the bronze medal at New York Festivals International Television and Film Awards. "Return To The USS Atlanta", which she directed and produced, won a Spirit of Independents Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and screened on Netflix and PBS. Her first feature documentary, Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet, won the Audience Choice Award at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto, Canada. Other past projects she's created, directed, and produced include the four-part documentary series "A Different Country" for ETV South Africa, "Forgotten Freedom Fighters", a documentary film for Al Jazeera English, and "These Streets Belong To Us", which screened at several international film festivals and aired on MNet Africa. As a freelance supervising producer, her most recent credits include "To Catch A Smuggler" for National Geographic and "The Shadows of Death" and "Suspicious Minds" for Investigation Discovery. She co-founded the annual Jozi Film Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2011 and was a festival director until 2015. In 2017, she founded the annual Mystic Film Festival in Mystic, Connecticut and is currently the festival director. She graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Russia with an M.A. in Russian Language and Literature, and from Washington State University with a B.A. in French and Russian.