Sundance Advisor-in-Residence

Anayansi Prado

Los Angeles, California, United States | Documentary Filmmaker

Anayansi Prado is an award-winning documentary director and producer with over 20 years of filmmaking experience. Her work has focused on issues of immigration, indigenous land rights, race identity, education and other social and humanitarian issues. Anayansi's films have aired nationally on PBS and abroad, including her four feature films MAID IN AMERICA (2005, Independent Lens) about Latina domestic workers in LA, CHILDREN IN NO MAN'S LAND (2008) about unaccompanied immigrant minors crossing the US/Mexico border, PARAÍSO FOR SALE (2011) about American retirees migrating to Panama, and THE UNAFRAID (2018, America Reframed) about undocumented students in Georgia. Her films have screened at numerous film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Full Frame & Double Exposure. More