Shashwati was born and raised in Dehradun, India. MARRIAGE COPS is her second documentary feature. She began her professional career in New York City as an assistant editor for Michael Moore, and later worked on projects for HBO, BBC, Lifetime, Sundance, and Cablevision. Her films have screened internationally, including at the Busan International Film Festival, the Kiasma Museum of Art in Helsinki, and the Whitney Biennial. Her work has received support from the Asian Cinema Fund in Busan, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Tribeca Foundation, and the India Foundation of the Arts among others. Shashwati has been awarded the James Yee Mentorship Award from the Center for Asian American Media and the Project Involve Fellowship from IFP (Gotham) New York. She has an MFA in Film and Video Arts from Temple University, Philadelphia, and an MA in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. She works as a director and editor between Taiwan and India.

Cheryl is a award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer from Philadelphia. Her work has screened at festivals such as Aspen Shortsfest, the Tribeca Film Festival, Sonoma International Film Festival and many others.

Cheryl is a recipient of a prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts and her work has been supported by the Tribeca Film Institute, the Knight Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Asian Network of Documentary. In 2018 Cheryl won the grand prize in the AIA Film Challenge for a short documentary she directed, shot, and edited in just 16 days. That same year she was a finalist in the Tribeca If/Then Shorts Northeast competition with her short “She Got Balls!” which was recently awarded the Best Director (Short) prize at the Atlanta Docufest. Cheryl has a long background in shooting film and recently started her own YouTube channel called “Analog Girl” in order to make women more visible in the online camera/tech space. She received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University.