Shara K. Lange
producer & director
Shara K. Lange is founder and director of Light Projects: Documentary/Art/Community and completed her MFA in film production at the University of Texas at Austin's Radio/TV/Film department, with emphases on documentary and experimental film. Her thesis film (Student Academy Award Regional Semi-Finalist) tells the story of North African immigrant women in southern France. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study Arabic and to make the documentary, The Dressmakers, in Morocco in 2007.
She has previously worked as Associate Producer on a documentary series about declining marine fisheries (www.habitatmedia.org), the second segment of which was nominated for an Emmy. She worked with the project in the Canary Islands and Madrid in Spain as well as in Santiago and Chiloe in Chile. She also worked on Steve Okazaki’s HBO documentary, "Rehab", Blackside’s series on African American spirituality, "This Far By Faith", and a documentary about Harry Hay, "Hope Along the Wind". She has taught GED Preparatory classes to teen mothers at Concilio Hispano outside Boston, English to French children and adults in Marseille, France, and film classes to teens at Motion Media Arts (currentyl Austin School of Film) in Austin, Texas.