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Brooke Saias

(she/her/hers)

Filmmaker, Producer, Director

Providence, RI US

Available for Freelance

About

Brooke Saias (she/her) is an independent filmmaker, producer, and director based in New England. She collaborates with various organizations, institutions, production companies, and artists. Currently she is the Managing Producer for StoryKeep and she is also an Associate Producer with Arch+Bow Films. In her independent film practice she explores personal and collective memory in relationship to place, family, and identity. Her documentary short, Songs of the Sephardim in Izmir about the preservation of the Ladino language premiered in 2022 and continues to screen at festivals around the country. She was previously a production manager for Harvard Business School, produced a collection of international documentary films for Compass Light Productions and worked as an award-winning video journalist for Education Week Brooke is dedicated to making the documentary space more equitable and accessible. She was part of a team that helped establish The Video Consortium's first mentorship program sponsored by SONY. She has a graduate certificate in Documentary Studies from The Salt Institute and received a B.A. in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.