Sheena Sumaria is a British-Gujarati documentary filmmaker and co-founder of Guerrera Films. With a background in Economics and Development Studies from Cambridge and SOAS, she transitioned from international development to filmmaking, driven by her passion for social justice. Her projects include “Still Standing,” capturing life in Medellin’s slums; “Chile Building Dreams,” about the Chilean student uprising; and “Even the Crows: A Divided Gujarat”, her debut feature co-directed with her sister Sonum, which examines the 2002 Gujarat pogrom.

Her latest feature, “The Fisherman and the Banker,” chronicles a decade-long struggle of a fishing community in Gujarat against the World Bank Group. The film has been screened at various festivals and is currently showing in cinemas in the UK.

Sonum is an award-winning filmmaker, who has been making documentaries on marginalised communities for the past twelve years. She read Spanish and Russian at Cambridge University, and studied at the Cuban film school, EICTV, going on to complete an MA in Cinematography at MetFilm School in London. Her work includes ‘In the Shadows of Moscow’, a film exploring xenophobia in the Russian capital, ‘Goppi, The Cuban Indian’, a short about identity and belonging in Havana, and ‘Even The Crows: A Divided Gujarat’, a feature on Hindu nationalism.

Sonum has a deep interest in nomadic and indigenous communities and is currently finishing a feature-length documentary about one of the last remaining nomadic camel-herding families in Western India.