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Sheida Kiran

Documentary Filmmaker

Sheida is a British-Turkish-Iranian documentary filmmaker and composer based in London. She conducted research on women and migration during her BSc Social Sciences studies at University College London (UCL). This led to her MA in Documentary Film at University Arts London (UAL). Driven by her passion for ethnographic storytelling, her most recent work focuses on documenting women's rights and their relationship to land. Her student film 'Harvesting Our Tea' was selected for the One World Media Global Short Docs Forum 2021, and later, commissioned by BBC Our World and broadcast globally. The film was shortlisted for a student BAFTA and Grierson award, and was awarded Best Short Documentary in the Women's Voices Now Film Festival in LA and Porto Femme Film Festival in Portugal.

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