Shehani is an award-winning immersive producer / director based in London, passionate about innovative forms of storytelling that combine documentary practice with new technologies. She recently founded immersive studio Indigo Storm which produces XR experiences and was the producer and presenter for the StoryFutures Academy Podcast.

In 2022, she produced an AR app for Factory 42, ‘Landscapes Reimagined’ for Tate and Shanghai Museum bringing paintings to life, and directed ‘The Museum of Imagined Futures’ VR experience which toured nationally as part of the Unboxed festival. She’s also produced immersive experiences for Nexus Studios, Visualise, East City Films and Scan Lab Projects.

In 2019 she produced ‘The Waiting Room VR’ with BAFTA-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck about her personal journey of living with breast cancer which premiered at the Venice Film Festival and won IDFA’s Digital Storytelling award.

She has worked in a number of roles at The Guardian, including acting Head of Audio where she exec produced their weekly podcast output (8 shows a week including Politics, Science and Books).

From 2016-18 she directed VR experiences for the Guardian’s in-house VR studio. These pieces have toured to festivals worldwide and have been exhibited at the Phi Centre in Montreal. They ranged from award-winning ‘Limbo’, a virtual experience of seeking asylum, ‘The Party’ which puts the viewer in the position of an autistic teenager and ‘Celestial Motion’, a dance piece choreographed by Alexander Whitley.

Shehani’s background is in current affairs and documentary. She spent many years shooting and editing hundreds of short films on a range of topics from politics to the arts for The Guardian, covering global news stories such as the US election in 2008, the Wikileaks revelations and the Arab Spring. She is passionate about the arts and has filmed with contributors such as Rem Koolhaus, Terence Conran, Jeremy Deller and Marina Abramovich.

She has lectured on immersive at Royal Holloway University and University of the West of England and served on the juries for Sheffield DocFest’s Alternate Realities, Amnesty International Media Awards and Encounters Film Festival. She also sits on the BIMA immersive council and is part of the Tell2C Collective of global female storytellers dedicated to global impact and change.