Sharon Wahl

Sharon Wahl

History

Sharon Wahl is a documentary film producer and award-winning fiction writer. In 2005, she and Jonathan VanBallenberghe started Open Lens Productions, a production company that produces long and short form commercial projects, FullDome 360 videos, stock footage, and documentaries. Sharon has produced six independent documentaries. In 2003, she was writer-in-residence at Penn State. In 2018-19, as a producer, she was a Fellow of the Hanson FilmTV Institute at the University of Arizona. She is currently finishing a novel and a collection of short stories.

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Sharon Wahl

Movies

Almost an Island
Almost an Island
Producer
A cinematic portrait of the Goodwins, an Inupiat family living above the Arctic Circle in Kotzebue, Alaska. Through observing three generations of one family over four years, the documentary explores what it means to be indigenous in the dramatically changing Arctic.