Sarah Anthony
Documentary producer shares what it’s like being on the frontlines of some of the world’s most events
Sarah Anthony is a dear friend and an award-winning documentary producer.
She produced the Netflix film Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator. She was the lead Producer on the Grammy-winning HBO documentary series, The Defiant Ones, and on The Price of Free, a documentary about child slavery, which won the 2018 Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize.
Sarah began her documentary career in London, with films on subjects ranging from the Iraq war to the Ming Voyages of the 1400’s. She was Associate Producer for PBS Frontline on The Age of AIDS, a four-hour series covering the history of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2007, Sarah moved to Los Angeles and joined Exclusive Media as the Co-head of Documentary Features.
Public art, music, and social reform make her heart sing.
At Exclusive Media, she supervised development, production, and distribution on multiple documentaries, including Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Billy Joel’s The Last Play at Shea, and the Academy Award-winning Undefeated.
Sarah has worked extensively with director Davis Guggenheim and the Emerson Collective on a variety of social justice issues, from immigration reform to redesigning the American high school system.
This week, we discuss how she manages being on the front lines of telling stories that impact change, our mutual love for budgeting, and how George Harrison helped her become a better human.
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"I remember somebody gave me this advice one time that, if you are in charge, make sure you find somebody else to do the stuff that keeps their head down because, if your head is down, nobody is watching the whole thing.”
-Sarah Anthony
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