Ladan Anoushfar is the Senior Video Producer and co-leader of As Equals, CNN’s award-winning series reporting on gender inequality. She is a multi-award-winning filmmaker who has produced, directed, and edited films for CNN, BBC, The Guardian and Al Jazeera English.

After studying at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art in London, she trained with Abbas Kiarostami and Oscar winner Asghar Farhadi in Iran where some of her projects are set. Her film The Sanctions Hotel looking at the resilience of Iranians in the face of sanctions was a runner-up for a Foreign Press Association award and also won the silver medal at the NY TV and film awards. The one-hour doc Stealing From the Sick for BBC Africa Eye which she edited, won the AIB’s award for Best Investigative Documentary. She also won an Emmy award, Gracies award, Lovies and Webbys for videos reporting on systemic gender inequality for CNN. Before her time at CNN, Ladan co-founded Black Leaf Films in 2018, an independent production company that works on delivering films, investigations and series on underreported social issues for platforms such as Al Jazeera English, BBC and Channel 4 News.

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