Daresha Kyi is looking directly at the camera.
Daresha Kyi
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Director & Producer

Daresha Kyi (she/her) writes, produces, and directs film and television in Spanish and English. In 2017, she co-directed the multiple award-winning film Chavela. In 2018, she directed a short for an ACLU web series on transgender rights that garnered over 1.5 million views on YouTube, as well as a series of shorts for the Family Independence Initiative about their work empowering families to escape poverty. This 2017-18 Firelight Documentary Lab fellow has also produced programming for FX, WE, AMC, Telemundo, and FUSE, among others.

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