Shasha Nakhai
Shasha Nakhai is a filmmaker based out of Toronto with Compy Films and Storyline Entertainment. Her award-winning films have screened at festivals and aired on TV worldwide, been released on iTunes, gone viral and been awarded Vimeo Staff Pick and Short of the Week. Her film with partner Rich Williamson, Frame 394, was shortlisted for the 2017 Academy Award for Best Documentary Short. It had its world premiere at the 2016 Hot Docs Film Festival, was named one of TIFF’s Top 10 Films of 2016, and was nominated for 2 Canadian Screen Awards. She recently released her first feature documentary, Take Light, which enters the tangled web of Nigeria’s energy crisis. The film premiered at Hot Docs, Cleveland, Atlanta, Durban, AFRIFF, and Cinefest Sudbury and was selected for the prestigious Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s Doc Fortnight. Shasha was 1 of 8 emerging producers selected for the DOC Institute’s Breakthrough Program in 2015, and was awarded Telefilm Canada’s Pay It Forward Prize as part of the Hot Docs Film Festival’s Don Haig Award. Shasha grew up in Nigeria and came to Canada as an international student in 2003.
