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Sara Newens

Overview

Sara Newens is a Los-Angeles based filmmaker and Emmy-award winning editor who began her career working for CBS News in New York City. Her first documentary feature, Top Spin, was acquired by First Run Features and received rave reviews from the LA Times and Wall Street Journal during its festival run and theatrical release.

She also served as Editor/Writer for Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s feature, On The Record, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and distributed by HBO Max. She recently completed a second collaboration with Dick and Ziering as Supervising Editor on the HBO documentary series Allen v. Farrow. She is also known for cutting several fiction shorts and co-editing the critically acclaimed indie feature Freeland, as well as directing and editing the award-winning documentary short, Footprint, featured in The New York Times Op-Docs series.

A graduate of the MFA Documentary Film and Video Program at Stanford University, she continues to create original work through her production company Wild Pair Films, co-owned by Mina T. Son. Currently, they are developing their next feature entitled Racist Trees, which chronicles a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs fighting for the removal of a wall of trees that many residents believe were originally planted as a totem of segregation. In addition, she helms the LA chapter of Video Consortium, a global organization for nonfiction storytellers and video journalists.

Known for

Directing
2022 Racist Trees Directing Director N/A
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2014 Top Spin Directing Director 59
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2010 Top Spin Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2022 Racist Trees Writing Writer N/A
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2020 On the Record Writing Writer 59
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2017 Gut Hack Writing Writer 59
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Production
2022 Racist Trees Production Producer N/A
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2014 Top Spin Production Co-Producer 59
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Sound
2014 Top Spin Sound Sound 59
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Camera
2014 Top Spin Camera Camera Operator 59
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Crew
2020 L.A. Roll Crew Thanks N/A
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Editing
2024 The White House Effect Editing Editor N/A
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2023 Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields Editing Editor 70
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2022 Racist Trees Editing Editor N/A
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2022 The Dark Side of a Hollywood Icon Editing Editor N/A
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2021 Freeland Editing Editor 58
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2020 On the Record Editing Editor 59
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2018 Roles We Play Editing Editor N/A
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2017 Gut Hack Editing Editor 59
Average
2014 Top Spin Editing Editor 59
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Now Return Us To Normal Editing Consulting Editor N/A
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