Sanjna N. Singh

( new york · new delhi · iowa city )

Sanjna N. Singh

writing & story

Writer and filmmaker working across nonfiction, screenwriting and documentary

  • workshops
  • open for collaborations

Sanjna N. Singh is a writer and filmmaker whose work moves across nonfiction, screenwriting, documentary, and television. After five years at HBO, she directed or supervised programmes for Discovery Channel, VH1, Travel Channel, Food Network, Esquire, Logo, and others. Her documentary Out of Status received a nomination for the Amnesty Human Rights Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival and won the South Asian Journalists Association's Best Broadcast Award. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Guernica, Bitch, Tricycle, Zora, and Slackjaw. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa's nonfiction MFA programme and has served as a script advisor on feature films.

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( in motion )

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teachings & practice

Out of Status — the documentary (49 min)

2006 · with Pia Sawhney · watch on YouTube

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( what they offer )

Offerings

  • Creative writing
  • Nonfiction & memoir — scope, timeline and point of view
  • Fiction — plot and character
  • Freewriting seminars
  • Documentary storytelling
  • Script advising on feature screenplays

( notes from seekers )

Reviews

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“In their no-frills documentary, Out of Status, Pia Sawhney and Sanjna N. Singh examine the actions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service after 9/11.”
— Jeannette CatsoulisThe New York Times
“The docu remains both an impassioned defense of American ideals and a vociferous warning on how those ideals are being hijacked.”
— Jay WeissbergVariety
“Out of Status highlights how broadly Muslims were profiled, held, subjected to abusive treatment and deported.”
— The AerogramThe Aerogram
“Delighted to note that Sanjna N. Singh is the 2021 winner of the $1000 A.C. Bose Grant for South Asian Speculative Literature!”
— Mary Anne Mohanraj, Speculative Literature FoundationSpeculative Literature Foundation / Mary Anne Mohanraj

( gathered from ) sanjnasingh.com · deerpark.in