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Sasha Joelle Achilli

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Biography

BAFTA- & EMMY-winning documentary producer/director. Film credits include Outbreak, Terror at the Mall, and Murdered for Love? Samia Shahid.

Known For

Outbreak
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FRONTLINE spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the Ebola outbreak’s path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and 2015 and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. The documentary shared firsthand accounts from survivors and victims’ family members — from the forest region of Guinea to the bustling Liberian capital of Monrovia — including the father of a one-year-old Guinean child who was believed to be the first person to die in the outbreak.

Outbreak

2015
Inside the Iranian Uprising
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In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been arrested by Iran’s religious police, accused of not wearing her hijab properly. The authorities said she had died of a heart attack, but rumors spread that she had been beaten on arrest. Citizens took to the streets in their thousands in fury. This is an extraordinary and shocking insight into what has been happening across Iran, revealing a regime under huge pressure and resorting to extreme cruelty to control its citizens.

Inside the Iranian Uprising

2023
Terror at the Mall
7.7

A documentary detailing an indiscriminate terrorist attack that left 71 dead in Kenya.

Terror at the Mall

2014
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In September 2014, Samia Shahid got married in Bradford, West Yorkshire. In July 2016, Samia went to Pakistan to visit family. Six days later, she was found dead. This film uses interviews with Samia's closest friends. Actors have been used to protect their identities, but some of the voices you hear are their own. The film contains dramatic reconstructions inspired by events in Samia's life. Social media, texts, photos and voice recordings are original.

Murdered For Love? Samia Shahid

2018
Kids Caught in the Crackdown
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As the detention of migrant children has climbed to record-breaking levels under President Trump, FRONTLINE and The Associated Press investigate what’s going on inside federally-funded shelters — and the lasting impact on children held in U.S. custody. Also in this two-part hour, a report on the sexual exploitation of women and girls in Iraq.

Kids Caught in the Crackdown

2019
Surviving Syria’s Prisons
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A look inside one of the most brutal campaigns of state repression in modern history - told by those who endured it and those who enforced it.

Surviving Syria’s Prisons

2025
Shadow Commander: Iran’s Military Mastermind
8.0

The extraordinary story of General Qassem Suleimani with first-hand accounts of his secret deals and shifting alliances across Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

Shadow Commander: Iran’s Military Mastermind

2019
Inside Italy's COVID War
10.0

Much of the suffering wrought by COVID-19 has played out where we cannot see: in closed hospital units. With unprecedented access, award-winning filmmaker Sasha Joelle Achilli goes inside a hospital during the coronavirus crisis in northern Italy, capturing an unforgettable look at the harrowing, heroic fight doctors and nurses are waging against the disease. “We have few weapons. The virus has them all,” says Dr. Francesca Mangiatordi, a senior ER doctor at Cremona Hospital. “But with the few we have, we are trying to resist and fight back.” Achilli’s camera follows Mangiatordi, her staff and the patients they’re treating, creating an intimate and profound portrait of those at the front lines of a global pandemic.

Inside Italy's COVID War

2020