Sachi Cunningham (Director/Director of Photography/Producer) is an award winning documentary filmmaker  and Associate Professor of Journalism at San Francisco State University. A graduate of  the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and Brown University, Cunningham  has worked on the staffs of PBS FRONTLINE/World, where she covered stories from  the first Presidential election in Afghanistan to sex trafficking in Dubai, and the Los  Angeles Times, where she was recruited to start their first video team. When not making  documentaries, Cunningham can be found swimming somewhere in the Pacific, where  she is known for her pioneering big wave water surf photography.