Jody Hassett Sanchez

Jody Hassett-Sanchez’s latest documentary More Art Upstairs premieres at Hot Docs, North America’s largest documentary film festival in 2017. Her previous film SOLD: Fighting the New Global Slavery has been broadcast in more than 60 countries, screened on more than a thousand campuses and included in the State Department’s international cultural affairs program.

Jody covered religion, culture, and education for ABC’s World News Tonight andNightline, traveled the globe as CNN’s State Department producer and served as senior producer of CNN’s Cold War Postscript.

In 2009, Jody created the Africa Film Project which identifies and supports the next generation of African storytellers who are already sparking social change through short documentary films.