Andy Sarjahani

Andy Sarjahani is an Iranian-American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer raised 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 Untitled Brent Renaud Documentary (HBO, post-production).

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 debut feature documentary, IRANIAN HILLBILLY was a Southern Doc Fund 2022 grant recipient and winner of New Orleans Film Festival 2022 South Pitch and is currently in early production. He was a 2023 Center for Asian American Media Fellow, 2023 PBS Wyncote Fellow and 2024 Gotham/HBO Documentary Development Fellow.