12 Minute Convos W/ Engel Jones

Kasha Sequoia Slavner is an award-winning Gen-Z documentary filmmaker, and founder of The Global Sunrise Project. At 16, she left school for a year, to travel the world, in production on her first feature film, The Sunrise Storyteller. The film premiered at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 2017, and has screened at 61 film festivals, garnering 31 awards, some of which include: "Best Documentary" at Carmarthen Bay BAFTA Awards Qualifying Festival, "Rising Star Filmmaker" at Colorado International Activism Film Festival, the "Golden Jury Prize, Youth Visions" at the Social Justice Film Festival, Seattle. Kasha has also been a photographer, entrepreneur, educator and social justice advocate for over a decade, as well as a writer, public speaker and contributor to several publications, including National Geographic Learning. Kasha was selected as the first recipient of the Kim Phuc Youth Peace Prize. In 2019, she was the recipient of the Diana Award and is one of the Wonder Grantees for Sus