Saleem Reshamwala

Saleem Reshamwala is a Japanese-Indian-American filmmaker whose recent work has focused on culture, ethnicity and music. Awards include an Emmy-nomination for his work on implicit bias and race while at the New York Times and Best Music Video at the Hip Hop Film Festival in Harlem (for G Yamazawa’s  “North Cack”). Outside of film, he hosted two seasons of TED’s “Far Flung,” an audio travel show about ideas. Saleem has also created work for The Guardian, POV, PBS NC and the PBS Digital Studios series “Beat Making Lab,” for which he filmed rappers and beatmakers in Senegal, Ethiopia, Fiji, Panama and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has studied, worked or hung out in over 50 countries.