Penguin Speakers Bureau
Biography
Sadia Shepard is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker and writer. In 2001, she left New York for Bombay on a Fulbright Scholarship, her goal to try to understand the history and future of the tiny Indian Jewish community that her grandmother was born into and left to marry her Muslim grandfat …
Read moreSadia Shepard is a New York City-based documentary filmmaker and writer. In 2001, she left New York for Bombay on a Fulbright Scholarship, her goal to try to understand the history and future of the tiny Indian Jewish community that her grandmother was born into and left to marry her Muslim grandfather. Sadia spent nearly two years recording her experiences in film, video, and writing, which became the basis of her first book, The Girl from Foreign.
In addition to writing, Shepard continues to produce documentaries for television and film. Her credits include the “Outsourcing” episode of Morgan Spurlock’s award-winning series 30 Days and R.J. Cutler’s forthcoming film The September Issue, about Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, which will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009. Her documentary In Search of the Bene Israel premiered at the New York Jewish Film Festival at Lincoln Center in January 2009.
Check out Sadia Shepard’s website at www.sadiashepard.com.
Speaking Topics
- Writing from Life: The Craft of Memoir
- Growing Up with Multiple Faiths
- India, Pakistan, and the Partition of India
- Documentary Filmmaking
- The Art of Reduction: Researching and Writing the Family Story
Featured Book
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The Girl from Foreign
"Told from the heart, The Girl From Foreign performs the unique feat of making the foreign feel familiar." —Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 
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