SARAFINAPR   DUCTIONS

SARAH FEINBLOOM

DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

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Sarah Feinbloom is the founder and the former executive director of GOOD DOCS – a leading educational documentary distribution company specializing in human rights and social issue documentaries. She is also an award-winning director, producer and editor whose film work includes documentaries, dramatic narratives and advocacy films. Sarah has a long and varied career as a documentary filmmaker. Of note, she developed and practiced a collaborative-filmmaking approach, partnering with individuals and communities to center their stories and experiences. As early as 1991, while a middle school teacher in Boston, she put cameras into the hands of her students to co-create YOUTH TO YOUTH - A Video About Violence, becoming one of the very early independent filmmakers who fostered and promoted youth-led storytelling. In 2005, Sarah directed and produced DAUGHTERS AND SONS - Preventing Child Trafficking In The Golden Triangle which raised over $200,000 for Friends of Thai Daughters , a Thai American NGO working to protect Thai, Hmong, Karen and Vietnamese children. Some of her other credits include EARTH, WATER, WOMAN (2013) about a Rastafarian Trinidadian woman and her community combating climate change in the Caribbean, and MANY LOVES, ONE HEART (2017) championing LGBT activists and their straight allies in Jamaica. One of her latest projects WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE NOW? (2019) follows up with the spiritual and religious lives of a diverse group of young people whom she first profiled in her celebrated 2002 documentary, WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE?. Both films premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival. WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? aired on PBS in 2003 and screened internationally at venues including the National Association of Multicultural Education and the American Academy of Religion. It was voted “One of the Ten Best Videos for Young Adults in 2003” by the American Library Association and has been shown at over 2,000 schools and colleges. In conjunction with these two companion films, Sarah created and led participant-centered workshops on interfaith dialogue and religious diversity and was a featured speaker at the Ford Foundation Difficult Dialogue Series, the Graduate Theological Union's conference Religious Pluralism in the 21st Century, and the Religions For Peace-USA Symposium: Beyond Bigotry. Sarah holds a B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.A. in Education from Tufts University. In addition to teaching high school social studies and history, adult ESL and youth filmmaking workshops, she was a working journalist in Israel in the 1990s. She recently served as a jury member for Jewish Story Partners 2024 granting cycle, and is a former member of New Day Films. She has received funding in the past from the California Council For The Humanities, Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media Film Grant, The Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund, The Pacific Pioneer Fund, The Marin Community Foundation and Hartley Film Foundation.