Shalini Kantayya

Filmmaker Shalini Kantayya´s ‘Coded Bias,’ premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. She directed for the ‘National Geographic’ television series ‘Breakthrough’ (Executive Producer: Ron Howard), broadcast globally in June 2017. Her debut, ‘Catching the Sun,’ premiered at the LA Film Festival and was named a ‘NY Times Critick´s Pick.’ ‘Catching the Sun’ was released globally on Netflix on Earth Day 2016 with Executive Producer Leonardo Di Caprio and was nominated for the Environmental Media Association Award of the Best Documentary. Kantayya is a TED Fellow, a William J. Fulbright Scholar, and an Associate of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.