Sandy McLeod is an Academy Award–nominated independent filmmaker with extensive experience across major areas of filmmaking. She began her directing career with music videos. Her music videos for the Talking Heads and an AIDS awareness video for Erasure are now part of the MOMA’s permanent collection.  A short film she directed for Saturday Night Live called Doll Day Afternoon  was showcased in major museums such as the Boston Museum of Fine Art and the Walker Art Center. McLeod worked with Jordon Cronenweth and Jonathan Demme  to establish the visual style of Stop Making Sense. She served as production designer for Swimming to Cambodia and co-created the documentary Haiti, Dreams of Democracy with Demme. She starred in a cult feminist film called Variety. She has collaborated with John Sayles as a second unit director. McLeod is a member of the Directors Guild of America. Seeds of Time marked her debut feature-length documentary. Her short documentary Asylum, about a Ghanaian woman fleeing female genital mutilation, was Oscar-nominated and received a Gracie.