Sana Ahmed Al Zayani is a Bahraini documentary filmmaker and producer with over eighteen years of experience in television production and documentary filmmaking. She has directed a body of documentary films for Al Jazeera Documentary Channel and Bahrain Television, works that document Gulf cultural identity and chronicle the lives of its notable figures among them the series Naqsh Al Tariq, Najmat Al Thuraya, and Abdullah Al Zayed… A Patriot’s Love. She has supported her specialization in documentary filmmaking with academic study, delivered a number of training workshops in the field, and served on several jury panels at film festivals across the region.