Emma “Zinha” Morgan-Bennett, is a native New Yorker living in London. After encountering documentaries through her undergraduate studies in anthropology, she has embarked on a career as a director who films stories surrounding race, reproduction, and apocalypse via nonfiction and fiction narratives.

As a director and writer, Zinha recently directed the award-winning, Mama I’m Through, a 20-minute documentary about Black women, the Black Lives Matter movement, and their potential motherhood (2022; Rhode Island Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival; Watersprite Film Festival and more); she is 2023 a Birmingham Open Media (BOM) resident; she was selected as a youth juror for the 2022 Sheffield DocFest; named a 2022 AR Talent artist for Sheffield DocFest, a 2022 Future of Film grantee, and a 2020 Marshall Scholar. In her spare time, Zinha has been trained as a doula since the age of 20 and has assisted five incredible mothers (and counting!) through their pregnancies.