Shareen is an award-winning filmmaker and the founder of Fort Greene Filmworks, a production company based in New York City and Johannesburg, South Africa.
Together with Lisa Henry of Left Hand Films, Shareen co-directed and co-produced Forgotten Freedom Fighters, a one hour documentary film for Al Jazeera English, as well as the critically-acclaimed eight episode documentary series Saving Soweto, also for Al Jazeera English, and which received a bronze medal at the 2010 New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards. Most recently, Shareen and Lisa co-directed and co-produced These Streets Belong To Us, a one hour documentary about how three Johannesburg communities are dealing with the high levels of crime in South Africa and the Rageh Omaar Report: The Party's Over for Al Jazeera English.
Other past films Shareen has worked on include Prison Town U.S.A., a feature length documentary about prison expansion for the P.O.V. strand on PBS,
Families: The Wonder of Toddlers also for PBS, Beyond Blue: Mankind's Deepest Dive for RTVi, Uncle Sam Wants You!, a two hour special for A&E that follows US Marines as they find young recruits in a low income neighborhood in Queens, New York, the award-winning Food Network specials After Midnight: New York and After Midnight: Las Vegas, and Take This Job... a 13 part series for A&E on how Americans make a living.
Shareen was field producer on The Sacred Truth: The Blue Hole of Dahab, which took the Gran Prix at the Belgrade International Underwater Film Festival and co-produced The Empty Tomb, a one hour documentary about the Great Pyramid, both for RTVi.
Her first feature-length documentary film Charents: In Search Of My Armenian Poet was completed in September 2009, which won the 2010 Audience Choice Award at the Pomegranate Film Festival in Toronto, Canada.
Shareen graduated from St. Petersburg State University, Russia with an MA in Russian Language and Literature in 1994, and from Washington State University with a BA in French and Russian in 1989. A California native, she has lived and worked extensively in the US, Russia, Armenia, Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Ukraine, France, and England. She is currently based in South Africa.