Sara Mishara

Sara Mishara

Birth : , Boston, Massachusetts, USA

History

Sara Mishara is an American-Canadian cinematographer, born in Boston, Massachusetts. She studied film at Concordia University and the Prague Film School. She is a four-time Prix Jutra nominee for Best Cinematography. She won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Cinematography at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards, for her work on the film The Great Darkened Days (La grande noirceur).

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Sara Mishara
Sara Mishara

Movies

Viking
Cinematography
Five men and women form a B-team on Earth to remotely deal with the interpersonal problems of the five astronauts who will soon land on the planet Mars.
Norbourg
Director of Photography
The story of Vincent Lacroix, a businessman convicted of defrauding thousands of investors and embezzling over $130 million in mid-2000s Quebec, Canada. Inspector and auditor Éric Asselin is mandated to monitor the activities of the Norbourg firm. Literally fascinated by the audacity of Vincent Lacroix, the investigator leaves his post and becomes his right hand man. Norbourg then thwarts the investigations and checks by embezzling hundreds of millions of dollars. But the party can't last forever when the company is surrounded from all sides.
Drunken Birds
Director of Photography
A drug-cartel worker runs afoul of his boss and migrates to Canada, in Ivan Grbovic’s timely tale of star-crossed love and starting over.
Drunken Birds
Screenplay
A drug-cartel worker runs afoul of his boss and migrates to Canada, in Ivan Grbovic’s timely tale of star-crossed love and starting over.
My Salinger Year
Director of Photography
A college grad takes a clerical job working for the literary agent of the renowned, reclusive writer J.D. Salinger.
The Great Darkened Days
Director of Photography
While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey home, he encounters various characters under the sway of a destructive madness borne of the chaotic times. His voyage, both violent and fascinating, is a hallucinatory initiation to the darker side of the American dream.
Boundaries
Director of Photography
Single mom Laura, along with her awkward 14 year-old son Henry is forced to drive Jack, her estranged, care-free pot dealing father across country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home.
Allure
Cinematography
Plagued by the abuse of her past and the turmoil of failed intimate encounters, Laura struggles to find a lover and a sense of normalcy. Her beacon of hope comes in sixteen year-old Eva, a talented pianist disillusioned by the life her mother imposes upon her. An unlikely relationship is formed between the two and Eva becomes an obsession to Laura. In light of Eva's unhappiness, Laura convinces her to runaway to her house and they soon find themselves caught within an intense entanglement. Manipulation, denial and codependency fuel what ultimately becomes a fractured dynamic that can only sustain itself for so long.
Felix and Meira
Cinematography
A young married woman from Montreal's Orthodox Jewish community finds freedom from the strictures of her faith through her relationship with a young man who is mourning the death of his estranged father.
You're Sleeping Nicole
Director of Photography
Making the most of the family home while her parents are away, 22-year-old Nicole is enjoying a peaceful summer with her best friend Véronique. But when Nicole’s older brother shows up with his band to record an album, the girls’ friendship is put to the test.
La tête en bas
Director of Photography
Head Down casts an atypical view on the solitude, melancholy and marginality in the daily life of three girls.
All That You Possess
Director of Photography
An obsessed scholar attempts to withdraw from the world but finds personal ties drawing him back into the family he had left behind, in this novelistic, beautifully modulated drama from acclaimed Québécois filmmaker Bernard Émond.
Roméo Onze
Director of Photography
Rami, a young man who lives with his Lebanese family in Montreal, walks with a debilitating limp. His controlling father, Ziad, insists on making Rami's choices for him. Ziad wants Rami to enroll in business school, but Rami, who is lonely and a bit of a dreamer, doesn't have his heart in it. When a young woman Rami's met online suggests they meet in person, he hatches a plan to pass himself off as Romeo, the businessman persona he assumes online.
Roméo Onze
Screenplay
Rami, a young man who lives with his Lebanese family in Montreal, walks with a debilitating limp. His controlling father, Ziad, insists on making Rami's choices for him. Ziad wants Rami to enroll in business school, but Rami, who is lonely and a bit of a dreamer, doesn't have his heart in it. When a young woman Rami's met online suggests they meet in person, he hatches a plan to pass himself off as Romeo, the businessman persona he assumes online.
Jo pour Jonathan
Director of Photography
Jo lives in the shadow of his older brother. Amidst a world of delinquency, they become interested in illegal car racing. One night they participate in of them, never reaching the finish line. Jo will become Jonathan.
Familiar Grounds
Cinematography
Benoit and Maryse are a brother and sister leading seemingly normal lives. Everything is changed by a series of coincidences and the arrival of a man claiming to come from the future.
Demain
Cinematography
A young woman taking care of her diabetic father gets involved in a one way relationship. Portrait of a generation about to replace another, Demain is a film based on an inertia marked youth, and on it's precursors confronted to their own disappearance.
Cirque du Soleil: LoveSick
Cinematography
This fascinating reality program exposes the ups and downs of a group of Cirque du Soleil performers as they put together "Zumanity," a new, highly erotic show in Las Vegas. Filmed over two years, Lovesick follows the diverse group of artists -- coy Cuban stripper Alex, feisty New York drag queen Joey, stylish British dancer Laetitia and debutante princess Jonel -- along with Creation Director Andrew and Spymonkey, the outrageous clown quartet.
Everything Is Fine
Director of Photography
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more and more detached from the world around him. It is a modern portrait of today's teens: invincible yet fragile, clear-thinking yet confused...
Continental, a Film Without Guns
Cinematography
The mysterious disappearance of a man affects the lives of four different people, all living in loneliness in the suburbs of Quebec: the wife of the missing person, an aging ex-gambler, a young receptionist who want to share her life with somebody, and a father looking to help his family.
Les jours
Director of Photography
The tragic death of a young girl in the forest. The torments that follow. The father's vain revenge. A meeting between the dark side of nature and the precariousness of life.
Le rouge au sol
Director of Photography
A man who has hit rock bottom shares his feelings with his mother on a trip to IKEA.
Hardcore Action News
Cinematography
Investigating your life, exploiting your body.