Sasha Waters is a moving image artist and professor of film at Virginia Commonwealth University. Since 1998, Sasha has produced and directed 18 documentary and experimental films, 14 of which were in 16mm. Sasha’s most recent documentary, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable (2018), has screened in theaters and at festivals around the world; it was named one of the year’s best by The New Yorker’s Richard Brody; and it won a Special Jury Prize for “Best Feminist Reconsideration by a Male Artist” in the 2018 SXSW Film Festival Documentary Competition. Winogrand aired on the PBS series American Masters in April 2019. Her new documentary in progress, Trouble Don’t Last, about artist Bruce Conner and the gospel group Soul Stirrers, has received support from the Catapult Film Fund, Field of Vision, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded a 2019-20 Virginia Museum of Art Fellowship in Fine Arts and received the 2016 Helen Hill Award from the Orphan Film Symposium.

Sasha has exhibited and screened at film festivals, museums, and galleries from Abu Dhabi and Anchorage to Zagreb and Zurich, as well as in classrooms, church basements, storefronts, and public libraries. Notable venues include the Telluride Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Kassel Dokfest, IMAGES in Toronto, the Brooklyn Museum, SF MoMA, LAXART, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco, Microscope Gallery, Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, and Film Forum, New York.