Sarah Sellman
New York, NY
Sarah Sellman is an American filmmaker born in the rural ranching town of Alamosa, Colorado. Sarah graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Television in 2011, where she focused on writing and directing both film and television.
From 2012 – 2015 Sarah lived and worked in Syracuse, New York, serving as the Communications Coordinator for Light Work, a nationally recognized nonprofit supporting photo and video artists, and as the Managing Director of the Syracuse International Film Festival. In 2014, Sarah completed her feature documentary, American Bear: An Adventure in the Kindness of Strangers, which won the American Documentary Film Pitch Competition and an Audience Choice Award at the Atlanta International Documentary Film Festival. After an eight-month theatrical and educational screening tour ending May 2015, American Bear is set for an October 2015 release.
Sarah currently divides her time between working as a teaching artist and freelance producer, distributing American Bear, and screenwriting. Her original pilot Cottonwood was the 2014 winner of Project Screenplay, a screenplay competition at Mass MOCA, and shortlisted for the Sundance Episodic Story Lab.
Sarah and her partner, Greg, run a video and film business together, making docupromotional material, fictional short films, and transmedia projects. They love to collaborate and are currently planning their next big project.