About
Suneil Sanzgiri is an artist, researcher, filmmaker, and video journalist working to understand how systems of oppression are informed and reinforced by trauma, history, and memory. His work spans experimental video, animations, essays, and installations. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Masters of Science in Art, Culture and Technology in 2017 and was a 2016 resident of the SOMA program in Mexico City. He has participated in several programs at Union Docs in New York, and exhibited in Mexico City, New York, Baltimore, Cambridge, British Columbia, and Gaza.
His professional work as a video journalist has led him to work with the likes of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Ava DuVernay, and other celebrities, activists, and politicians while working as a producer for NowThis (a massive online media outlet), creating videos with a focus on mass incarceration, police brutality, grassroots organizing, and protest movements.
He currently works for Point Source Youth as the Associate Director of Visual Storytelling and Video Communications, producing videos that amplify the voices of LGBTQ+ youth experiencing homelessness by collecting testimonies and giving the youth a platform to speak out about the issues that matter the most to them.
Contact: neil.sanzgiri@gmail.com