Sanaa Hamri () is a Moroccan American music video and film director. She is one of the few prominent female music video directors.

Early Life and break-through

Hamri was born in Tangier, Morocco to the late Moroccan painter and author, Mohamed Hamri. In 1992, the age of 17, she won a scholarship to Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where she studied theatre. Sanaa taught herself to use an Avid editing machine in 2000 and has never taken a filmmaking course. Realizing, she had knack for putting images together in order to tell a story, Hamri began making videos and approaching the music industry. Sarah Lawrence Magazinebeautiful People 2006: Sanaa Hamri