Sasha Joelle Achilli is a BAFTA, Emmy, and DuPont award-winning documentary filmmaker, renowned for her fearless storytelling from conflict zones and crisis areas. She directed Italy’s Frontline: A Doctor’s Diary (BBC/PBS Frontline), filmed inside a hospital in Northern Italy at the height of the COVID-19 emergency, which earned both BAFTA and Emmy nominations. Her directing credits also include 54 Days: America and the Pandemic; Shadow Commander, on Iranian general Qassem Suleimani; and Murdered for Love?, about the honour killing of a British-Pakistani woman. As a producer, she has investigated war crimes in Syria (Channel 4), reported on the Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Outbreak), and covered the Westgate Mall terrorist attack (Terror at the Mall). She also gained rare access to the Chibok girls rescued from Boko Haram in Nigeria’s Stolen Daughters and produced Inside the Iranian Uprising, in the aftermath of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody. Most recently, she served as edit producer on the BAFTA-winning The Shamima Begum Story.