
Sara Bernstein
Personal Info
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Production
Gender
Female
Sara Bernstein
Biography
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.
Crew
The Sound of Philadelphia
Executive Producer
The Hands That Held the Knives
Executive Producer
(2025)
(2025)
Pets
Producer
(2024)
Frida
Producer
(2024)
Stormy
Executive Producer
(2024)
Jim Henson Idea Man
Producer
(2024)
Music by John Williams
Producer
(2024)
The Lost Children
Executive Producer
(2024)
Mamus
Executive Producer
(2023)
This Is Brighton
Executive Producer
(2023)
Judy Blume Forever
Producer
(2023)
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
Executive Producer
(2023)
Carlos
Producer
(2022)
(2022)
Leave No Trace
Producer
(2022)
(2022)
We Feed People
Producer
(2022)
(2022)
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Producer
(2022)
Lucy and Desi
Executive Producer
(2021)
Paper & Glue
Producer
(2021)
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Executive Producer
(2021)
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Executive Producer
(2021)
Julia
Producer
(2021)
The Day Sports Stood Still
Executive Producer
(2020)
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Executive Producer
(2020)
Rebuilding Paradise
Producer
(2020)
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
Producer
(2019)
Wig
Co-Executive Producer
(2019)
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Executive Producer
(2018)
The Truth About Killer Robots
Executive Producer
(2017)
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Producer
(2017)
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Supervising Producer
(2017)
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
Producer
(2016)
Suited
Producer
(2016)
Risky Drinking
Senior Executive Consultant
(2016)
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Executive Producer
(2015)
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Executive Producer
(2015)
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Supervising Producer
(2015)
Thought Crimes
Supervising Producer
(2015)
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Supervising Producer
(2014)
Citizenfour
Supervisor of Production Resources
(2014)
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Supervisor of Production Resources, Supervising Producer
(2011)
Hot Coffee
Supervising Producer
(2011)
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
Producer
(2011)
Love Crimes Of Kabul
Supervising Producer
(2010)
Secrets of the Tribe
Supervising Producer
(2009)
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
Supervising Producer
(2007)
Katie Morgan on Sex Toys
Coordinating Producer
(2007)
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
Coordinating Producer
(2005)
The Children of Leningradsky
Production Coordinator
(2003)
And Along Came a Spider
Associate Producer
(2002)
Thoth
Coordinating Producer