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Shareen Anderson is an award-winning producer, director, and showrunner based in New York City. She has developed and produced a wide range of documentary films and series for major networks including A&E, PBS, Netflix, CNN, Al Jazeera English, Food Network, Travel Channel, Channel 4 UK, Oxygen, Lifetime, National Geographic, and Discovery.  

She created and executive produced The Murder of Laci Peterson, a six-part series for A&E that won a silver medal at the New York Festivals International Television and Film Awards. Her eight-part series Saving Soweto for Al Jazeera English earned a bronze medal at the same festival. Return To The USS Atlanta, which she directed and produced, won a Spirit of Independents Award at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and aired on Netflix and PBS. Her debut feature, Charents: In Search of My Armenian Poet, won the Audience Choice Award at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto. 

Other notable projects include A Different Country (ETV South Africa), Forgotten Freedom Fighters (Al Jazeera English), and These Streets Belong To Us, which aired on MNet Africa and screened internationally. As a freelance supervising producer, her recent credits include To Catch A Smuggler (National Geographic), The Shadows of Death, and Suspicious Minds (Investigation Discovery).

She co-founded the Jozi Film Festival in Johannesburg in 2011 and has directed the Mystic Film Festival in Connecticut since founding it in 2017. Anderson holds an M.A. in Russian Language and Literature from St. Petersburg State University and a B.A. in French and Russian from Washington State University.