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.
Filmography
all 71
Producer 67
Movies 52
TV Shows 19

Churchill at War (2024)

The Lost Children (2024)

I'm Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders (2024)

Jim Henson Idea Man (2024)

Stormy (2024)

Frida (2024)

The Dynasty: New England Patriots (2024)

The Truth About Jim (2024)

Choir (2024)

This Is Brighton (2023)

Carlos (2023)

The Super Models (2023)

Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman (2023)

Murf the Surf: Jewels, Jesus, and Mayhem in the USA (2023)

Judy Blume Forever (2023)

Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022)

Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet (2022)

Leave No Trace (2022)

We Feed People (2022)

Lucy and Desi (2022)

Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (2021)

Paper & Glue (2021)

Julia (2021)

Gossip (2021)

Who Are You, Charlie Brown? (2021)

Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker (2021)

The Day Sports Stood Still (2021)

Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine (2021)

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (2021)

We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (2021)

On Pointe (2020)

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band (2020)

Rebuilding Paradise (2020)

I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter (2019)

Wig (2019)

The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019)

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019)

The Truth About Killer Robots (2018)

Rolling Stone: Stories From the Edge (2017)

Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)

Risky Drinking (2016)

Suited (2016)

The Latin Explosion: A New America (2015)

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness (2015)

Thought Crimes (2015)

Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015)

Citizenfour (2014)

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It) (2014)

Love Crimes Of Kabul (2011)

Hot Coffee (2011)

Secrets of the Tribe (2010)

Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions? (2009)

Katie Morgan's Porn 101 (2007)

Katie Morgan on Sex Toys (2007)

The Children of Leningradsky (2005)

And Along Came a Spider (2003)

Thoth (2002)

The Hands That Held the Knives

The Sound of Philadelphia

David Blaine: Do Not Attempt
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