Sadia Shepard graduated from Wesleyan University in 1997. Her short film, Reinvention won the Director's Choice Award at NextFrame, UFVA's Touring Festival of Student Film and Video, 3rd Prize Documentary at the Marin County Festival of Short Films, and recently screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Eminent Domain
16mm, color and black and white
16 minutes

What is the identity of a town which has been bulldozed and replaced with a four lane highway? Eminent Domain is a portrait of Stewart, Mississippi in the process of its demolition, and takes a look at a community which has lost the primary physical spaces of its home.

Broadcast on The Sundance Channel, 2001.

Standing on Pioneer Boulevard, Dreaming of Home
16mm, color
8 minutes

A visual essay of a South Asian community outside Los Angeles and thoughts on the things we miss when we leave home.

Full Court Press
Digital Video
8 minutes

Full Court Press is a portrait of an inner-city high school basketball team with academic dreams. Co-produced with Lauren Popell.

Reinvention
16mm, black and white
4 minutes

Reinvention is the autumn love story of an eighty-three year old inventor and his muse. Determined to have a second childhood, Pete and Mary spend their days testing gadgets and their nights swing dancing at the senior center.

AWARDS: Director's Choice Award at NextFrame, UFVA's Touring Festival of Student Film and Video, 3rd Prize Documentary at the Marin County Festival of Short Films

FESTIVALS: 2000 Sundance Film Festival