Sasha Waters Freyer is a filmmaker, mother, teacher and amateur dressmaker.
Her experimental and documentary films have featured dominatrixes, coal miners, artists, children, activists – inhabitants of the margins of our mediated
landscapes – critical margins that are, in the words of Wendell Berry, “always freeholds of wildness.”

Following its World Premiere at the 2010 Telluride Film Festival, her documentary Chekhov for Children had its New York premiere in the Independents Night series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in October 2010 and its international premiere at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in February 2011.

Her videos & 16mm films and have screened widely in the U.S. and abroad, including on the Sundance Channel, the Tribeca, Woodstock, Chicago Underground, and Ann Arbor Film Festivals, the National Museum for Women in Arts, the L.A. Film Forum, Kassel Documentary Festival and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin. Her award-winning 2003 documentary, Razing Appalachia, about a community fight against strip mining in Blair, West Virginia, was broadcast in the U.S. on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens and in more than 30 countries globally as a part of the ITVS series: True Stories: Life in the U.S.A.

Since 2000, Waters Freyer has taught film & video in the Department of
Cinema & Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.  She is the Director of Film & Video Production and an Associate Professor.