Biography
Anayansi Prado is an award-winning documentary film director and producer. Her work has focused on issues of immigration, indigenous land rights, race identity, education and other social and humanitarian issues.
Prado’s films have aired on American television and abroad. Her four feature films Maid in America (2005), Children in No Man’s Land (2008), Paraíso for Sale (2011) and The Unafraid (2018) were shown on PBS. Her films have screened at numerous film festivals including Tribeca Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Full Frame and Double Exposure. Prado also directed and produced the Discovery en Español series 'Voces de Cambio’ [Voices of Change]. She was one of the directors of And She Could Be Next, a two-part documentary series that follows a defiant movement of women of colour as they transform politics from the ground up.
Prado is a Chicken & Egg Award recipient (2022), a Creative Capital grantee (2008) and an expert for American Film Showcase, the U.S. State Department’s film diplomacy program. She has taught documentary filmmaking workshops and was a visiting professor at UCLA, California State University, Northridge and Chapman University.
Prado holds a bachelor degree in Film & Television from Boston University.