Sandulela Asanda (she/they) is a filmmaker from the Eastern Cape currently based in Cape Town, South Africa. Sandulela holds an Honours degree in film from AFDA Film School in Cape Town. Her first professionally produced short, MIRROR MIRROR, had its world premiere in the Short Cuts Programme at TIFF in 2022, and its European premiere in Berlinale Generation 2023. In the same year, the film won the award for Best South African Short at the Durban International Film Festival (DIFF). She is an alumna of the Locarno Film Festival’s Filmmakers’ Academy, the Durban Film Mart and Realness African Screenwriter’s Residency.

Black Burns Fast (2025); Mirror Mirror (2022)