Sasha Joelle Achilli is a BAFTA, Emmy and DuPont award-winning documentary filmmaker and has spent her career getting at the heart of difficult stories in some of the most remote parts of Africa and the Middle East. She has investigated war crimes in Syria, produced BBC critically acclaimed film Outbreak where she spent five months investigating the Ebola crisis in West Africa at the height of the epidemic. She also investigated the terrorist attack in Nairobi's Westgate Mall for HBO and BBC documentary Terror at the Mall, gaining exclusive access to the CCTV footage and victims of the attack. In 2017 Sasha also produced BBC and HBO documentary, Nigeria's Stolen Daughters: kidnapped by Boko Haram which tells the story of over 280 girls who were kidnapped from their school in Chibok in 2014 and the impact Boko Haram has had on thousands of other women in North-East Nigeria. 

 

Sasha directed and produced Murdered for Love, a BBC film about the honour killing of a British-Pakistani woman and Shadow Commander: Iran’s Military Mastermind which tells the inside story of Iran’s infamous general, Qassem Suleimani, who was killed by an American drone strike at the beginning of 2020. 

Most recently Sasha filmed, produced and directed Inside Italy’s Covid War for PBS Frontline and the BBC where she goes inside a hospital in Northern Italy and tells the story of an A&E doctor on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Most recently Sasha filmed, produced and directed BAFTA nominated Italy’s Frontline: a Doctor’s Diary for PBS Frontline and the BBC where she goes inside a hospital in Northern Italy and tells the story of an A&E doctor on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic.