Name Sadia Shepard Role Filmmaker | Spouse Andreas Burgess (m. 2010) | |
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Books The girl from foreign, Footpaths in the Painted City: An Indian Journey Movies The September Issue, The Other Half of Tomorrow, The Education of Mohammad Hussein, Eminent Domain Parents Richard Shepard, Samina Quraeshi Similar People Samina Quraeshi, R J Cutler, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Anna Wintour | ||
the girl from foreign by sadia shepard
Sadia Shepard is a Pakistani American filmmaker and author based in New York City. 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.
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Biography
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.
In addition to writing, she 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. Sadia lectures widely about growing up in a multi-faith home.
She is the daughter of an American father, architect Richard Shepard, and a Pakistani American mother - artist, designer and educator, Samina Quraeshi.
