About Me

Maleah Welsh is a Santa Cruz-based documentary filmmaker, photographer, and social justice activist. She works with both analog and digital images and first discovered her love for photography in the darkroom. Maleahs' filmmaking style is shaped by her background in photography which draws her to the individual composition of each frame.

Stories are a powerful vehicle for developing understanding and compassion between communities and this is what first drew her to make films. Her practice of documentary film developed from the desire to enact change within unhoused communities and the way that society both perceives and treats unhoused people. Maleah is now a graduate student in the Social Documentation program at the University of California Santa Cruz.