Vashti Anderson

Vashti Anderson is a Trinidadian-American filmmaker based in New York. Since earning her MFA in Film at NYU, her films have won grants and awards and screened in film festivals all over the world. She wrote and directed the feature film Moko Jumbie, which explores themes of race, class and post-colonialism through a fictional story set in rural Trinidad. It had its world premiere at LA Film Festival and ended its festival run at Edinburgh International Film Festival, screening at Urbanworld, Pan African Film Festival, Curacao IFFR, BAMcinematek, and others in between. Her work has been written about in Indiewire, Crossfader, Film Inquiry, Caribbean Beat, Moviemaker, Enclave, Large Up, New Machine, Screen Daily and others. She is a contributing writer for Talkhouse, Moviemaker and A&U.