“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.”
︎ Audre Lorde, from The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action
sonia desai rayka (she/her)
filmmaker, cultural worker, and writer
Sonia Desai Rayka (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker, researcher, and cultural worker. Recently, she was an archival researcher on DIRTY POP (TIME Studios, 2024) and THE TURNAROUND (Breakwater Studios, 2024), both available to stream on Netflix. She was a documentary and children shorts programmer at the 2024 Nantucket Film Festival, and works with No Evil Eye Cinema as a virtual teaching facilitator. Her documentary short "Ohio is in the Heart" was commissioned by Asian American Documentary Network and played at CAAM Fest and New Orleans Film Festival. She is currently in production on two documentary shorts focused on migration, artistry, and touch. As a documentary director and producer, she believes that investigative work does not have to just be informative, it can also be beautiful. Based in Brooklyn by way of Ohio, Sonia is the granddaughter of Raghunath and Dhanaben.
Say hello: soniadesairayka@gmail.com
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