SHAREEN ANDERSON, FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Shareen Anderson is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder of Fort Greene Filmworks. Based in New York City and Mystic, Connecticut, she develops, produces, and directs documentary films and series grounded in storytelling, character, and nuance. She also directs and produces commercials, branded content, educational films, and podcasts.
Her credits include the Peacock docuseries Face to Face with Scott Peterson, The Right Track, and A&E’s The Murder of Laci Peterson. Additional directing and producing work includes Saving Soweto (Al Jazeera English), A Different Country, Forgotten Freedom Fighters (Al Jazeera English), These Streets Belong to Us (MNET Africa), Return to the USS Atlanta: Defender of Guadalcanal (Spirit of Independents Award, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival), and Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet (Audience Choice Award, Pomegranate Film Festival, Toronto).
As a freelance producer, her credits include Prison Town, U.S.A. (PBS), The Curious Case Of… (Investigation Discovery), To Catch a Smuggler (National Geographic), Friday Night Tykes (Esquire), and New York Homicide(Oxygen), as well as the Food Network specials After Midnight: New York and After Midnight: Las Vegas.
Shareen is the founder and executive director of the Mystic Film Festival, now in its ninth year. She is also a co-founder, executive producer, and co-host of the Playing With Fire Podcast and Mystic Mash Podcast.
She holds an M.A. in Russian Language and Literature from St. Petersburg State University and a B.A. in French and Russian from Washington State University. A California native, she has lived and worked extensively around the world, including Russia, Egypt, Cyprus, Ukraine, France, England, Armenia, and South Africa.