Vashti Anderson

Producer, Director, Scriptwriter

BIOGRAPHIE

Vashti Anderson is a Trinidadian American female filmmaker based in New York. Since earning an MFA in Film at NYU, Vashti's films have won grants and awards and screened in film festivals around the world. Vashti wrote and directed the narrative feature film Moko Jumbie, currently released on Amazon and other platforms by Indiepix Classics, which explores themes of race, class and post-colonialism through a magic realist story set in rural Trinidad. It had its World premiere at LA Film Festival, European premiere at Edinburgh International Film Festival, and screening at Urbanworld, Bentonville Film Festival, Pan African Film Festival, Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam, BAMcinematek Caribbean Film Series, and others in between. Moko Jumbie won the Chris Columbus/Richard Vague Film Production Award, the Canon Filmmaker Award from Film Independent, Best Screenplay Award at Bahamas IFF Filmmaker Residency Program, and Best Screenplay at Mosaic International South Asian Film Festival. Her films have been awarded grants from Kodak, the Caucus Foundation and the Riese Foundation. Vashti's work has been written about in Indiewire, Crossfader, Film Inquiry, Caribbean Beat, Moviemaker, Enclave, Large Up, New Machine, Screen Daily and others. Vashti is a contributing writer for Talkhouse.

FILMOGRAPHIE