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701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

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The Sandbox

Film Languages

Arabic, Greek, English

Director

Kenya-Jade Pinto

Producer

Shasha Nakhai

Through cinematic landscapes and testimony from survivors, journalists, and witnesses, Kenya-Jade Pinto’s THE SANDBOX examines modern border regimes, where surveillance, AI, and militarization shape who lives and who dies. From the Arizona desert to the drone-patrolled Mediterranean, migrants cross unforgiving terrain while rescuers race against systems designed to intercept, contain, or erase them.

At these frontiers, borders become testing grounds—places where new technologies are deployed with little oversight, reducing human lives to data within a vast, often unseen apparatus. As these tools expand beyond the border and into everyday systems, the distance between watcher and watched begins to collapse. No single villain stands at the center—only networks of institutions and protocols operating at scale.

There is no outside. The film dismantles the illusion separating “them” from us, revealing a world in which surveillance is not a distant threat but an expanding condition—one that renders us all increasingly legible, trackable, and, ultimately, disposable.

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Kenya-Jade Pinto

Director, The Sandbox

Kenya-Jade Pinto is an Indo-Kenyan Canadian storyteller whose training as a lawyer informs her work as a documentarian. Her hyphenated perspective shapes a practice attentive to the nuances of shared human experience in an increasingly interconnected world.

Pinto has participated in DOC Institute’s Breakthrough Program and the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival Emerging Filmmaker Program and Incubator. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and a Juris Doctor with a specialization in international law, and is a member of Women Photograph and Diversify Photo. In 2021, she was named a National Geographic Society Explorer.

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