Sara Bernstein
História
Sara Bernstein is an award-winning producer and Executive Vice President at Imagine Documentaries the newly launched documentary division of Ron Howard and Brian Grazer's, Imagine Entertainment. Recent feature films she has executive produced include Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band (2019) and Dads (2019) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The Ron Howard-directed documentary film, Rebuilding Paradise (2020), for National Geographic Films, D.Wade: Life Unexpected (2020) for ESPN Films and the documentary feature film on legendary chef Julia Child, Julia (2021) directed by Academy Award nominees Julie Cohen and Betsy West.
Prior to joining Imagine, Bernstein was Senior Vice President, HBO Documentary Films over seeing nonfiction development and production for HBO. Credits include Academy Award-winner Citizenfour (2014), Academy Award-winner Music by Prudence (2010), Academy Award nominees Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country (2008), Iraq In Fragments (2006), The Children of Leningradsky (2005), Poster Girl (2010). Emmy-nominated The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019), Emmy-nominated The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019), Judd Apatow's Emmy-winning The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling (2018), Emmy winners Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015), White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2007) and Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012). Emmy-nominated The Case Against 8 (2014), Mapplethorpe: Look At The Pictures (2016), Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker's Emmy-nominated Unlocking The Cage (2016); Beware the Slenderman (2016), I Love You Now Die (2019) and Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017).
Bernstein has garnered 10 Emmy wins, 29 Emmy nominations and 11 Peabody Awards. Documentaries she has supervised have garnered 2 Oscars and 13 Oscar nominations.
Executive Producer
Delve into the life and times of Stormy Daniels as she shares her story and account of events that have become part of American history.
Producer
Follows Santana's journey from 14-year-old street musician to a 10-time Grammy winning global sensation. Features unseen archival footage and tracks.
Executive Producer
O cineasta vencedor do Oscar® Morgan Neville registra a primeira visita de Dave Letterman a Dublin para passar um tempo com Bono e The Edge e se juntar aos dois músicos do U2 em um show completamente diferente do que já fizeram até agora.
Producer
The radical honesty of the books by young adult fiction pioneer Judy Blume changed the way millions of readers understood themselves, their sexuality, and what it meant to grow up, but also led to critical battles against book banning and censorship.
Producer
Com imagens detalhadas, relatos de sobreviventes e das equipes de resgate, este documentário retrata a erupção vulcânica que aconteceu na Nova Zelândia em 2019. Assista o quanto quiser.
Producer
Shines a light on David Johansen, the lead singer-songwriter of the androgynous 1970s glam punk groundbreakers the New York Dolls, and his complete reinvention as hepcat lounge lizard Buster Poindexter.
Producer
O documentário investiga o acobertamento de um século de abuso sexual quando 82.000 homens entraram com queixas, expondo o fracasso do Boy Scouts of America em proteger seus jovens escoteiros.
Producer
Acompanhe o chef José Andrés e a evolução de sua organização sem fins lucrativos, World Central Kitchen, ao longo de doze anos ̶ passando de um desconexo grupo de voluntários a uma das organizações de ajuda humanitária mais conceituadas no setor de assistência em catástrofes. Devido ao aumento sem precedentes dos desastres naturais causados pela mudança climática, essa história é mais importante do que nunca.
Producer
Investigadores revelam como a Boeing pode ter sido responsável por dois acidentes catastróficos seguidos ao priorizar o lucro em detrimento da segurança.
Executive Producer
O documentário explora a parceria improvável e o legado duradouro de um dos casais poderosos mais prolíficos da história do entretenimento. Lucille Ball e Desi Arnaz arriscaram tudo para ficarem juntos.
Producer
Usando telas inesperadas, o artista JR pretende dar uma voz global às pessoas comuns através de uma combinação dos gêneros arte pública, fotografia e espetáculo de grande escala.
Producer
Using never-before-seen archival footage, personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouth-watering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child's surprising path, from her struggles to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, to her empowering story of a woman who found fame in her 50s, and her calling as an unlikely television sensation.
Executive Producer
Lupita Nyong’o narra documentário sobre a turma do Snoopy e seu criador, Charles M. Schulz. Fãs famosos, Drew Barrymore, Kevin Smith e Al Roker falam sobre a sua influência e Charlie Brown vive uma nova aventura animada.
Executive Producer
Coded tells the story of illustrator J.C. Leyendecker, whose legacy laid the foundation for today's out-and-proud LGBTQ advertisements.
Producer
Por uma década, Dwyane Wade documentou intimamente sua vida e carreira com uma equipe de filmagem. O resultado é um retrato notavelmente sincero de um dos maiores jogadores da NBA de todos os tempos.
Executive Producer
A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
Producer
"Paradise Incêndios na Califórnia", de Ron Howard, acompanha a comunidade de Paradise um ano após os incêndios devastadores de 2018 no esforço de recuperar o que foi perdido.
Co-Executive Producer
Explorando as fortes influências do festival anual, Wigstock, responsável por ressignificar a data do fim do verão para toda a comunidade gay de Nova York durante 20 anos, diversos ícones do universo drag aproveitam para analisar as origens do evento e contar suas histórias. Depois de um tempo fora dos holofotes, o Wigstock finalmente retornou no último ano, mais forte do que nunca.
Executive Producer
Com uma nova invenção mágica que prometia revolucionar os testes de sangue, Elizabeth Holmes tornou-se a bilionária mais jovem do mundo, anunciada como o próximo Steve Jobs. Então, durante a noite, sua empresa de US $ 10 bilhões se dissolveu. A ascensão e queda de Theranos é uma janela para a psicologia da fraude.
Executive Producer
Documentário Original HBO que mostra como os humanos estão se tornando cada vez mais dependentes dos robôs. A partir do ponto de vista de engenheiros, jornalistas e filósofos que falam sobre diferentes situações onde os robôs causaram mortes de humanos, e de como estes representam uma ameaça para a sociedade.
Producer
Um olhar sobre a relação entre os veteranos de guerra e seus companheiros caninos, tanto no campo de batalha como na vida civil.
Producer
A harrowing, unflinching look at the devastating effects of opioid addiction in the U.S. told from the perspectives of four families devastated by the deadly epidemic.
Supervising Producer
O abuso infantil, a doença mental e o amor proibido convergem nesse mistério envolvendo mãe e filha que se pensava estar vivendo uma vida de conto de fadas que acabou se tornando um pesadelo.
Senior Executive Consultant
Documentário com o foco em pessoas cujas vidas e relacionamentos são afetados pelo alcoolismo.
Executive Producer
Puentes de Salud is a volunteer-run clinic that provides free medical care to undocumented immigrants in south Philadelphia. Here, doctors and nurses work for free to serve people who would otherwise fall through the cracks. Clinica de Migrantes, a potent film by Maxim Pozdorovkin, follows the workers and patients of Puentes through months of routine care and growth. Along the way, the film puts a face to the millions of people who exist on the margins of society: people displaced from their homelands, separated from their families, unfamiliar with the customs, unable to obtain health insurance and terrified to come forward to seek medical help. Along with revealing these patient stories, Clinica is also a look at the heroic doctors and nurses who work pro bono to ensure these people receive care, offering a deeply moving look at the limitless potential of humanity.
Producer
A alfaiataria Bindle & Keep, localizada no Brooklyn, atende a uma clientela diversa da comunidade LGBTQ. Os alfaiates Rae e Daniel seguem um método personalizado, considerando a narrativa própria de cada um dos seus clientes para criar roupas perfeitamente únicas. Entre esses clientes estão Derek, que encara uma jornada emocional antes de se casar com Everett, um estudante de direito que vive em um ambiente conservador, e Melissa, que só quer ficar linda para a sua festa de quarenta anos.
Supervising Producer
With more than 50 million Latinos now living in the United States, Latinos are taking their seat at the table as the new American power brokers in the world of entertainment, business, politics and the arts. As Latinos’ influence in American society has soared, they have entered mainstream American culture, and the proof is in the music. Executive produced by legendary music mogul Tommy Mottola, THE LATIN EXPLOSION: A NEW AMERICA features a dazzling array of artists at the center of Latino cultural power and influence, including Marc Anthony, Emilio Estefan Jr., Gloria Estefan, José Feliciano, Eva Longoria, George Lopez, Jennifer Lopez, Los Lobos, Cheech Marin, Ricky Martin, Rita Moreno, Pitbull, Romeo Santos, Shakira, Thalía and Sofía Vergara. Narrated by John Leguizamo.
Supervising Producer
Documentário sobre a paquistanesa que sobreviveu após ser baleada pelos próprios parentes pela “desonra” de se casar com o homem que amava.
Supervising Producer
Dubbed “The Cannibal Cop,” former NYPD officer Gilberto Valle was charged with conspiring to kidnap and eat women but argued it was all a fantasy. His story made headlines both for its disturbing details and its potential to kick off a trend of thought-policing across the nation. Featuring intimate interviews with Valle and insights from experts, Thought Crimes explores if someone can be found guilty for their most dangerous thoughts.
Executive Producer
Documentário sobre o vocalista, guitarrista e compositor Kurt Cobain, líder do Nirvana. Com acesso a arquivos pessoais e depoimentos de familiares de Cobain - inclusive com a participação da filha dele com Courtney Love, Frances -, o filme conta do início até a ascensão de sua carreira, apresentando diversas canções, algumas delas inéditas. O retrato íntimo de um artista que raramente se revelou para a mídia.
Supervisor of Production Resources
Uma documentarista e um repórter viajam para Hong Kong para o primeiro de muitos encontros com Edward Snowden.
Supervisor of Production Resources
Based on Elizabeth Swados’ picture book of the same name, this animated short film charts one woman's struggle with depression.
Supervising Producer
An intimate portrait of three young afghan women accused of committing "moral crimes."
Supervising Producer
Este documentário expõe o caso do processo movido por uma americana contra o McDonald’s, por queimaduras sofridas devido a um café quente comprado na lanchonete. O filme analisa o quanto se pode tirar vantagem do sistema legal dos Estados Unidos.
Producer
The story of one woman's mission to defeat cancer and help others do the same.
Supervising Producer
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last unacculturated tribes in existence, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet? Despite their "do no harm" creed and scientific aims, the small army of anthropologists that has studied the Yanomami since the 1960s has wreaked havoc among the tribe - and sparked a war within the anthropology community itself.
Supervising Producer
Adult-film star Katie Morgan answers a series of sex-related questions...in the buff, of course!
Coordinating Producer
The candid, and naked, Katie Morgan takes us through a history of porn. From ancient paintings and sculpture, to early pornographic silent films, to modern day adult films.
Coordinating Producer
Adult-film star Katie Morgan leads a candid, and naked, virtual journey through the history of sex toys, from stone age toys to the latest modern devices.
Production Coordinator
Since the fall of the Iron Curtain an estimated four million children have found themselves living on the streets in the former countries of the Soviet Union. In the streets of Moscow alone there are over 30,000 surviving in this manner at the present time. The makers of the documentary film concentrated on a community of homeless children living hand to mouth in the Moscow train station Leningradsky. Eight-year-old Sasha, eleven-year-old Kristina, thirteen-year-old Misha and ten-year-old Andrej all dream of living in a communal home. They spend winter nights trying to stay warm by huddling together on hot water pipes and most of their days are spent begging. Andrej has found himself here because of disagreements with his family. Kristina was driven into this way of life by the hatred of her stepmother and twelve-year-old Roma by the regular beatings he received from his constantly drunk father. "When it is worst, we try to make money for food by prostitution," admits ...
Associate Producer
A shocking portrait of the world of a recently captured serial killer, who sees his killing of prostitutes as in accordance with Islamic teaching. Over the space of a year, 16 women were murdered in the Iranian city of Mashad. Because the victims were lured into the killer's traps, the press soon called these the "spider killings." All but one of the victims had previously been arrested for prostitution and drug-related crimes. When a 39-year-old contractor is arrested and confesses to the crimes, he claims divine support for his crimes. His mother, wife, son, and many neighbors agree. AND ALONG CAME A SPIDER visits with the families of the victims, with the perpetrator and his family, and with prostitutes in this holy city. Most chillingly, the killer's son proudly re-enacts a murder, and suggests that he wants to grow up to be like his father. This is a chilling film about cycles of moral vengeance.
Coordinating Producer
Documentary of S.K. Thoth, a multi-ethnic street performer whose music marries cultures and blurs gender lines.
Executive Producer
The medium-defining composer who's breathed belief into over one hundred movies now receives his own.
