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May 19, 2022 · Sarah Winshall is a creative producer and the founder of the independent production company Smudge Films. She produced Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion , and Jane Schoenbrun’s We’re All Going to the World’s Fair .
Jan 7, 2022 · Jacob Agger, Sarah Winshall and Benjamin Shearn joined her as producers, with Rhianon Jones, Riccardo Maddalosso and Samuel Gursky as executive producers.
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Jan 26, 2022 · Bette Midler’s daughter Sophie von Haselberg plays Sissy St. Claire, a young performer delighted to be given her own variety show special, until the evening twirls into madness.
Sarah Winshall is a creative producer and the founder of Smudge Films. In 2018 she produced Clara’s Ghost (dir. Bridey Elliott, Sundance), and the award-winning documentary, ¡Las Sandinistas! (dir. Jenny Murray, SXSW).
- On How She Began Her Career
- On What It Takes to Be A Producer
- On The Best Part of Her Career
- On Her Hobbies and Interests
I've been pretty deep into movies for a long time. In college I was a Cinema Studies major. Then, after dicking around working retail and in food service for a couple of years, the recession hit and I went back to school to get a Masters in Media Studies. While in grad school, I was working at the Museum of the Moving Image and at Kim's Video where...
A good producer is someone who can glean their collaborator's intentions for the film early on. They have to be able to critique and foster experimentation and creativity in their collaborators. But at the same time, a good producer is organized and hardworking enough to bring the film to life as imagined. It's a delicate dance between feeling like...
I love to work really closely with the writer/directors throughout. So I try to be involved as early as possible, helping craft the script. It makes it easier to get the results we want when we go into production. Once the script is locked, we start pooling our resources and assembling the team. Production is a blur, and then my favorite part is ho...
I do a lot of things that are just for me! I am trying to get better at drawing and painting. I got this book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brainand it has really helped. I want to get good enough to go to the open figure-drawing session at my neighbor's house. I also love to bake bread. I just use Mark Bittman's simple no-knead recipe and embel...
Feb 21, 2023 · Sarah Winshall is a creative producer and the founder of the independent production company Smudge Films. Her latest release is Give Me Pity!, a dazzling musical extravaganza from director Amanda Kramer. The film made its World Premiere at IFFR in and will be released by Utopia in 2023.
Sarah Winshall is an independent producer championing personal films with unique worldviews. In 2016 she co-founded Smudge Films with writer/director Bridey Elliott.
