Yessenia Sánchez is a bilingual filmmaker from Northern California. After receiving her BFA in Film from Pratt Institute, her thesis film Double Cultura won the HBO Max Latino Short Film Competition in 2023 and was licensed to stream on HBO Max. Her recent narrative credits include editing Please Return Your Carts, a rom-com short film from the Find Your People Program organized by Issa Rae’s Color Creative, and editing season three of Lost Memories, a series for Alzheimer’s Los Angeles. She currently works as an Assistant Editor for SixTwentySix and is a 2026 Film Independent Project Involve Editing Fellow.