Miasarah Lai
is a Peabody-winning producer and Emmy-winning cinematographer. She has made work for the likes of VICE, The Atlantic, Snapchat, ABC News, Rolling Stone, People, Instyle, 60second Docs, Nike, 60sec Docs, Billboard, Spruce, Bank of America, and many others. Miasarah has worked internationally in Vietnam, Honduras, Ghana, Myanmar, Mexico, China, Nicaragua, Romania, and around the United States.
Her independent work has screened at Big Sky Film Festival, American Documentary Film Festival, Athens Ethnofest, Chicago Palestine Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and art museums. Select films she directed are Nobel Nok Dah (2015), and For My Art (2016). She has received grants and fellowships from the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Camden International Film Festival, Double Exposure Film Festival, The Propeller Fund, Kartemquin Films, and other institutions.
With a background in organizing the former Community Manager of Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Miasarah demonstrates a deep commitment to equity and social responsibility in the filmmaking process with attention to representations of marginalized communities and hiring diverse crews. Miasarah is a Co-Founder of Ethnocine Collective, and a member of Asian American Documentary Network. With an MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University, she has facilitated and organized panels & workshops at CPH:DOX, Sundance Film Festival, SSFILM's Doc Stories, the International Documentary Association's Getting Reel, Cannes Docs, Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, Haverford College, and other academic institutions.
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