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.