Hannah Jayanti is a documentary filmmaker, organizer, and educator. Her work centers process-driven and formally expansive nonfiction as ethical and political practices. Through this lens, she circles around questions of landscape, listening, memory, and time.

Her feature documentary Truth or Consequences (Rotterdam, 2020) was celebrated as “haunting and haunted” by the New York Times and “one of the best documentaries that came out in 2020” by the Boston Globe. Her directing work includes Stayers & Strangers (currently in production) and The Phantom Tollbooth: Beyond Expectations (New Yorker Festival, 2013). Her producing work includes the groundbreaking virtual reality documentary ‘Blackout’ (Tribeca Storyscapes, 2017), ‘Neanderthals - Meet Your Ancestors’ (PBS & BBC, 2018), and ‘The Secret Life of Uri Geller’ (BBC, 2013).

Her work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Sandbox Films, Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult, Points North Institute, New York Council on the Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Science and Justice Research Center, Jerome Foundation, among others. She has exhibited at  shown work at Rotterdam, Transmediale, Sheffield DocFest, Dok Leipzig, Tribeca Storyscapes, MUBI, the Museum of the Moving Image, The New Yorker Festival, the Smithsonian, among many others. She is currently pursuing a practice-led PhD at U.C. Santa Cruz focusing on speculative documentaries, spatial knowledge practices, multi-format storytelling, and ethical collaborative practices.