Sarah Winshall

Sarah Winshall
OccupationProducer
Years active2019–present

Sarah Winshall is an American film producer. She has produced Strawberry Mansion (2021), We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022), I Saw the TV Glow (2024) and Good One (2024).

Early life

Winshall attended The New School receiving a Master's degree in Media Management, and was a graduate of NYU's Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies.[1][2]

Career

Apart from producing, Winshall is a film critic, with her work being published in Filmmaker, Screen Slate and Under the Radar.[3][4]

She is the founder of Smudge Films, a production company, under which she has produced Clara's Ghost by Bridey Elliott,[5] Strawberry Mansion by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley,[6] Give Me Pity and By Design by Amanda Kramer.[7][8] We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun,[9][10] and Good One by India Donaldson.[11]

In 2024, Winshall alongside Micah Gottlieb co-founded the film festival Los Angeles Festival of Movies.[12]

Filmography

Film

Year Film Credit
2018 Clara's Ghost
2019 Leave the Bus Through the Broken Window Co-producer
2021 Strawberry Mansion
2022 We're All Going to the World's Fair
Give Me Pity!
2024 I Saw the TV Glow
Good One Executive producer
Dream Team Executive producer
2025 By Design

References

  1. ^ "New School Alums Talk Filmmaking, Children's Rights, Carbon Footprints and More at SXSW '23". The New School. March 14, 2023. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  2. ^ "Sarah Winshall". Passerby Magazine. April 13, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  3. ^ "Sarah Winshall". Screen Slate. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  4. ^ Winshall, Sarah (May 19, 2022). "Packing for Cannes, "d'Actes Malveillants," and L'Envol: Sarah Winshall's Cannes Producer Diary, #1". Filmmaker. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  5. ^ Luers, Erik (January 26, 2018). "How the 'Clara's Ghost' Filmmakers Used Family to Make a Hilarious 'Haunted House' Movie". No Film School. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  6. ^ Barraclough, Leo (June 21, 2021). "Sundance Title 'Strawberry Mansion' Acquired by Alief (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  7. ^ Ravindran, Manori (June 22, 2022). "Utopia Buys Psychedelic Musical Comedy 'Give Me Pity!' Out of Fantasia (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 12, 2024.
  8. ^ Grobar, Matt (September 11, 2024). "Juliette Lewis & Mamoudou Athie To Topline Body Swap Pic 'By Design' From Amanda Kramer". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  9. ^ Kroll, Justin (October 7, 2021). "A24 And Emma Stone's Fruit Tree Banner Reunite On Jane Schoenbrun's 'I Saw The TV Glow'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  10. ^ Wiseman, Andreas (May 4, 2021). "HBO Max & Utopia Pick Up Sundance Coming-Of-Age Horror 'We're All Going To The World's Fair'". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  11. ^ Lang, Brent (February 13, 2024). "Metrograph Pictures Buys Sundance Breakout 'Good One' (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved December 21, 2024.
  12. ^ Olsen, Mark (February 20, 2024). "Los Angeles desperately needs a new film festival. They're about to give it one". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved December 21, 2024.