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Sheetal Magan is a South African filmmaker  of Indian descent presently based in Toronto. She is  interested in disruptive stories driven through strong female protagonists and original ideas. She studied Screenwriting and Directing at The South African School of Motion  Picture where she graduated at the top of her class.  She earned a masters in Visual Anthropology from HMKW Berlin in 2021 moving into interdisciplinary practice and she is presently in her second year of her P.h.D in Cinema and Media Studies at York University in Canada exploring women's experiences of indenture and emerging technologies. 

She earned an early reputation for tackling social taboos with 'God Dank vir Klank' about rap duo Die Antwoord and the appropriation and Zef culture, The Fall of Ganesh a slice of life look at race in suburbs of modern day South Africa premiering the Oregan Cascade Festival. Paraya (2016) explored Xenophobia premiering at the Directors Fortnight in Cannes, then competing in Toronto, Durban, Stockholm and Mumbai. City of Ashes (2021) a sci-fi dealing with an airborne virus and an immune child plays the Durban International Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner and MUICA International Festival. 

Atman Media Lab is her creative home, a woman led indie outfit currently in development on her feature film The ‘Day and Night of Brahma with Urucu Media. ‘Acts of Man’ a neo-noir crime drama with the BePhat Motel and ‘The Queue’ a dystopian telling of life after the Arab Spring in the vein of Orwell's 1984 and Coolie Women a documentary an VR exploration of women in the indentured period.