Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer raised in a working class community outside the Arkansas Ozarks. He is interested in people, our relationship to place, and how that shapes our worldview. His recent cinematography credits include Academy Award-nominated The Barber of Little Rock (The New Yorker, 2024), Southern Storytellers (PBS, 2023), and Armed Only with a Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud (HBO, SXSW Audience Award 2025).
His recent Director credits include The Smallest Power (Sundance, 2024); Wild Hogs and Saffron (Big Sky Doc Fest, 2024); American Grail: A Quest for the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Big Sky Doc Fest, 2024), and Black Ag (Hot Springs Doc Fest, 2023).
His personal work has been supported by The Pulitzer Center, ITVS, The Gotham, HBO Documentary Films, The New Yorker, Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), DOC NYC, New Orleans Film Society, Southern Documentary Fund, Reel South, and PBS.
He was a 2022 New Orleans Film Society Emerging Voices Fellow, 2023 CAAM Fellow, 2023 PBS Wyncote Fellow and 2024 HBO/Gotham Documentary Development Fellow.
Contact
andy.sarjahani@gmail.com