Where Heaven Meets Hell

Sasha Friedlander is an emerging filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Friedlander completed her BA from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Culture, graduating with a focus in Balinese dance and documentary film. She received her MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York. After UCLA, Sasha received a Darmasiswa Fellowship from the Indonesian government to study dance and photography at the Institute Seni Indonesia (Indonesian Art Institute) in Denpasar, Bali. While in Indonesia, Friedlander began an internship at Bali TV, and because of her fluency in the Indonesian language, was asked to join a team of journalists from the BBC and the Bali Post to launch the first edition of the International Bali Post. From November 2008 through July 2009 she continued translating and editing at the Bali Post. Inspired by a brief trip she took to Kawah Ijen crater in East Java in 2009, she raised funds and returned to Indonesia to produce Where Heaven Meets Hell, her first feature film. Friedlander was selected to participate in the IFP/Film Society of Lincoln Center's Emerging Visions program at the 2011 New York Film Festival, a yearlong project showcasing and mentoring 25 emerging filmmakers.