San Francisco Bay Area based filmmaker Sabereh Kashi’s work has appeared on PBS, MTV, BBC, and international networks. She has made films in the US, Canada, and Iran. Her most recent work, “I’m Oakland”, is a short documentary about an African American woman in Oakland, California facing gentrification. Kashi’s debut, the 35mm documentary Lalezar Street (2000) premiered at Fadjr International Film Festival, Iran. She created a web series about Iranian immigrant artists struggling with belonging in North America (2008-2016). Her editorial work has premiered at Hot Docs, IDFA, and Sundance. She edited and co-wrote the ITVS documentary Our Summer in Tehran (2011), and the award-winning short Surviving International Boulevard: Domestic Sex Trafficking in Oakland (2016). Her current project, Home Yet Far Away, depicts her personal journey of searching for home and reconciliation between Iranian and American cultures. Kashi is the recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Investing in Artists award, a Berkeley Film Foundation grant, and the student Emmy Award. An artist resident at SFFilm and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kashi co-founded Re-Present Media, a nonprofit that advocates for the personal stories of under-respresented communities in nonfiction media. When not working, she practices Capoeira and West African dance.