Three-time Emmy® Award-nominated Peruvian-American director, editor, and writer Sandra Bambarén Powers is currently the lead editor of Disney’s critically acclaimed series "Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur.”  Sandra has brought her creative expertise to numerous animated shows, including Nickelodeon's “Legend of Korra” and Disney’s “Elena of Avalor.” As an MFA graduate in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts, Sandra seamlessly blends her talents across various mediums. She wrote and directed the short film "Still Life After Death,” premiered at the Sharjah Film Festival in 2021, now available on Amazon Prime. Her first short film “Autumn” was distributed by Ouat Media and screened at the International Festival Images Contre Nature (France), Wimbledon Shorts Film Festival (England) and EXiS Film Festival (South Korea).  

In 2023, Sandra art directed the Grammy®-nominated and critically acclaimed film opera Black Lodge for Opera Philadelphia and made her stage directorial debut with The Great Soviet Bucket, produced by Beth Morrison Projects and funded by the National Performance Network for Miami Light Project. Sandra conceived and directed the immersive theatrical experience BARDO, which premiered at the United Theater in Los Angeles in October 2024, produced by Beth Morrison Projects with CAP UCLA. Hailed by the LA Times as “full of wonder...a wondrously weird mélange of butoh dance, shadow puppetry, ghosts of various varieties.” BARDO featured over forty performers and invited audiences to confront their deepest secrets while exploring a historic theater filled with hungry ghosts, tormented souls, and mystifying creatures searching for escape. Following its acclaimed debut, BARDO will have its New York City premiere at the Prototype Festival in January 2025.

Sandra has also conceptualized and directed over fifteen music videos, bringing her distinct vision to Grammy®-nominated bands such as DeVotchKa and Timur and the Dime Museum.