Producer & Director
Sarah Knight is a New York-based multi-disciplinary artist, writing, directing and producing across film and theatre.
Her narrative feature debut Vino Veritas, starring Emmy winner Carrie Preston (Elsbeth) and Bernard White (The Matrix Reloaded/Revolutions), was released by Gravitas Ventures. Mark Adams of Screen Daily wrote, "A smartly and slickly made indie drama, blessed with four fine performances. Director Sarah Knight keeps Vino Veritas moving nicely."
Sarah's documentary Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend is a portrait of Nicole Sherry, Head Groundskeeper for the Baltimore Orioles at Camden Yards—one of only two women ever to hold that position in Major League Baseball. Diamonds premiered at the Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame, where it remains an active part of the library.
Hot Flash (EPF Media), her documentary about the all-senior, multi-cultural, award-winning trio, Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women, was nominated for a Blues Music Award, was featured at IFP Independent Film Week-Spotlight on Documentaries and won the Audience Favorite Award at the Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival. It is currently being developed into a stage play.
Sarah won a NYSCA Individual Artist Grant and the NYWIFT Ravenal Grant for the Athena List Award winner, In the Land of Fire & Ice. The film will star Oscar nominee and Emmy- winner, Shohreh Aghdashloo (House of Sand and Fog, The Expanse).
She attended the Stowe Story Labs Spring Writer's Retreat with An Ideal Wife, her gender-reversal, Golden Age of Hollywood style update of Oscar Wilde's classic. The script placed as a semi-finalist in the American Zoetrope, Nashville Film Festival, WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Lab and The Writers Lab contests.
Her adaptation (co-written with Sarah Skibinski) of Michael Dorris' bestselling novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, about three generations of Indigenous American women, was featured at IFP Independent Film Week-Emerging Narrative.
Sarah's work has been supported by Tribeca All Access, the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Rotterdam CineMart Producer's Lab.
