Jody Hassett Sanchez

Jody is president of Pointy Shoe Productions (PSP), a documentary and long-form production company that explores issues of faith and culture. She was named a Senior Fellow of the Trinity Forum in 2005. 

Jody Hassett Sanchez

She is finishing up SOLD: Fighting the New Global Slave Trade, a documentary filmed in India, Pakistan, and West Africa about people of faith on the front lines of the fight against twenty-first-century slavery—a multi billion-dollar business.

PSP is in preproduction on Tongues of Fire, a film about the rapid spread of Pentecostalism around the world as well as a documentary about missionaries from Africa determined to “reconvert” Europe. Jody is also finishing up a curriculum on faith and art for The Trinity Forum.

Before becoming a filmmaker, Jody spent seventeen years in network television, most recently at ABC. She covered religion, culture, and education for ABC’s World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, as well as filing stories for Nightline.

Prior to ABC News, Jody traveled the globe with CNN for almost twelve years. As the State Department producer covering Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, she reported from Mongolia one week and a refugee camp in Macedonia the next.

Jody was a senior producer of CNN’s series on the legacy of the Cold War and was an arts reporter for CNN International. Her honors include an Edward R. Murrow Award, a National Emmy Award, USC Getty Annenburg Fellowship for Journalism in the Arts, and Journalistes en Europe Fellowship.

A graduate of Smith College and a native Cape Codder, Jody lives in the Washington, DC area with her husband George Sanchez.

One of the big differences between scientific faith in that sense and religious faith in another sense is that religious faith involves commitment of the whole person. I believe in quarks and gluons very strongly, actually, but it doesn’t affect my life in any very critical way. I can’t be a Christian without it affecting my life in all sorts of ways. There is moral demand in religious belief as well as an intellectual demand, which does make it more costly, more challenging, and in the end more worthwhile.

John Polkinghorne

Featured Resource from the Fellows

Cover image via AmazonThe Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up by Don Eberly.

A sweeping and hopeful overview of the extraordinary new forces that are prying open closed societies and cultivating democratic norms across the globe.