Sara Bernstein
female

Known for Production
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.
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Crew Credits
- 2025
- 2024
Frida
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Producer
2024
Stormy
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Executive Producer
2024
Jim Henson Idea Man
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Producer
2024
Music by John Williams
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Producer
2024
The Lost Children
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Executive Producer
2024
Mamus
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Executive Producer
2024
The Dynasty: New England Patriots
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Executive Producer
2024
Choir
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Executive Producer
2024
The Truth About Jim
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Executive Producer
2024
I'm Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders
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Executive Producer
2024
Churchill at War
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Executive Producer
2024
- 2023
- 2022
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
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Producer
2022
Leave No Trace
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Producer
2022
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
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Producer
2022
We Feed People
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Producer
2022
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
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Producer
2022
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
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Producer
2022
Lucy and Desi
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Executive Producer
2022
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet
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Executive Producer
2022
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
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Executive Producer
2022
LIGHT & MAGIC
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Executive Producer
2022
- 2021
Paper & Glue
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Producer
2021
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
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Executive Producer
2021
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
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Executive Producer
2021
Julia
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Producer
2021
The Day Sports Stood Still
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Executive Producer
2021
We Are: The Brooklyn Saints
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Executive Producer
2021
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
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Executive Producer
2021
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
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Executive Producer
2021
Gossip
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Executive Producer
2021
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
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Executive Producer
2021
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