Sara Newens

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Director/Producer/Editor, Wild Pair Films

Los Angeles, CA US

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I am a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles.

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Sara Newens is a documentary filmmaker and Emmy award-winning/multi-nominated editor based in Los Angeles. She has edited many features and series for HBO, Netflix and Hulu including PRETTY BABY: BROOKE SHIELDS, which received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Picture Editing after premiering at Sundance and won the Cinema Eye Honors Award for Outstanding Broadcast Editing. She was also nominated for an Emmy, ACE Eddie award and Cinema Eye award for her work on ALLEN V. FARROW. In addition, she served as editor/writer for ON THE RECORD, which also premiered at Sundance. She is known for directing, producing, and editing PBS's Independent Lens film RACIST TREES and doc feature TOP SPIN with Mina T. Son, as well as The New York Times Op-Docs film FOOTPRINT: WHERE THE TOWERS STOOD. She has also delved into cutting fiction and co-edited the critically acclaimed indie feature FREELAND starring Lily Gladstone.

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