An encounter with Veena Sud, iconic creator, showrunner and director (The Killing, Seven Seconds, The Stranger). Veena shares her experiences about surviving as an artist/woman of colour in the United States with its troubled and fraught history of race and immigration. Further topics include how the intersectionality of race, ethnicity and gender has shaped her work, and the dance BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of colour) artists do in an industry that has historically been and is now dominated by white male filmmakers and their gaze. Part presentation, part Q&A – submit your questions!

Presented by

Speaker

• Veena Sud

Moderator

• Paula Vaccaro, Producer and scriptwriter, Pinball London

Veena Sud created THE KILLING (AMC/Netflix) which was nominated for six Emmys, including for Sud’s writing, as well a WGA nomination for Best New Series. Her recent Emmy Award winning TV series, SEVEN SECONDS (Netflix), is an ensemble drama centered on the hit and run of a young Black teenager by a white police officer. Sud’s feature film THE LIE (Blumhouse), which she wrote and directed, premiered as a Gala at the Toronto International Film Festival and will premiere on Amazon this fall. Her most recent film/series hybrid, THE STRANGER debuted on Jeffrey Katzenberg’s ground breaking Quibi mobile platform in April 2020.

Sud was featured in The Hollywood Reporter’s 2011 Power Showrunners List and Variety’s Women’s Impact Report. She worked as a print and broadcast journalist in New York City, in film distribution at Third World Newsreel, and is an alumnus of New York University’s Graduate Film and Television program.

She is represented by William Morris Endeavor and Anonymous Content and her attorney is Bruce Gellman at Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman and Newman.