Sarah Friedland

Teaches at DCTV

New York based filmmaker, Sarah Friedland, received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 2003 and her MFA from Hunter college in 2010. She also attended the International School of Film and Television in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Friedland began her career as an editor, working on many projects including the award-winning documentary Free to Fly US/Cuba Link, by prominent, Cuba-based, documentarian Estella Bravo and the Emmy nominated film, The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo, by Amy Stechler. Friedland's directorial debut, Thing With No Name, premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival and has screened at many festivals internationally and nationally. Her work has been supported by grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Paul Newman Foundation and the William H. Prusoff Foundation. In 2009, Friedland was named one of "the 10 independent filmmakers to look out for" by the Independent Magazine.