Still Voices Short Film Festival

Float

Women in Sri Lanka confront community expectations by learning to swim and, along the way, swimming becomes a way to float in life.

Director Bio

Saila Huusko is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She recently directed READING NORTH for Al Jazeera’s Witness documentary strand, and co-directed the award-winning feature documentary MORONI FOR PRESIDENT, which had a national US broadcast on PBS’ America ReFramed by American Documentary/POV. Her journalism has been published by The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and Narratively – among others. For three years, she was the in-house filmmaker for CMI, the conflict resolution NGO founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Martti Ahtisaari. Originally from Finland, she has worked around the world, including in South Sudan and Afghanistan.