Sara Chishti (she/her) is a New York-based filmmaker dedicated to telling underrepresented stories. In addition to directing, Sara produced the Oscar-qualifying film Exodus (SXSW 2025), which was executive produced by Geeta Gandbhir, Blair Foster, and Rudy Valdez and was nominated for a Critics Choice Awards. She also produced San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood, directed by Stanley Nelson. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University’s Film and Media Studies program, Sara is a Brown Girls Doc Mafia Sustainable Artist Fellow and a 2025 Bitchitra Collective Fellow, with work supported by the Center for Asian American Media, Firelight Media, the Islamic Scholarship Fund, the Rogovy Foundation, and Kickstarter.