Sasha Joelle Achilli is a BAFTA, Emmy and duPont Columbia award-winning documentary filmmaker who has spent her career getting at the heart of difficult stories in some of the most remote parts of Africa and the Middle East. At the height of the pandemic Sasha filmed, produced and directed the BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated film Inside Italy’s COVID War for FRONTLINE and the BBC where she went inside a hospital in Northern Italy to tell the story of a doctor on the frontline of the pandemic. Sasha’s work as a director includes Murdered for Love, a BBC film about the honor killing of a British-Pakistani woman and Shadow Commander: Iran’s Military Mastermind, which tells the story of Iran’s infamous general, Qassem Suleimani, who was subsequently killed by an American drone strike at the beginning of 2020.

As a producer, Sasha has investigated war crimes in Syria for Channel 4, gone undercover in Iran, and produced the critically-acclaimed film Outbreak, for which she spent five months investigating the Ebola crisis in West Africa at the height of the epidemic. She also investigated the terrorist attack in Nairobi's Westgate Mall for the HBO and BBC documentary Terror at the Mall, gaining exclusive access to the CCTV footage and victims of the attack. In 2017, Sasha produced the BBC and HBO documentary Nigeria's Stolen Daughters: kidnapped by Boko Haram, gaining exclusive access to the Chibok girls living in a safe house in North-East Nigeria. More recently, she produced the BAFTA award-winning documentary The Shamima Begum Story and FRONTLINE’s Inside the Iranian Uprising, which used user-generated footage and firsthand accounts to examine the Iranian regime’s brutal crackdown on protests in the aftermath of Mahsa Zhina Amini’s death in custody.