Shalini Kantayya spoke to NPF Bodily Data fellows December 1, 2022.

Award-winning filmmaker Shalini Kantayya’s Coded Bias premiered at 2020 Sundance, was Emmy-nominated for Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary, a Critics’ Choice Award, and an NAACP Image award and now streams on Netflix.  Her debut feature, Catching the Sun, Executive Produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, was released on Netflix and was named a NY Times Critics’ Pick. Her most recent film “TikTok, Boom.” was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and broadcast on the PBS series Independent Lens.