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Sarah Anthony  

Documentary Film Producer

Sarah Anthony most recently served as a writer and Producer on the top ten Netflix series Heist, and Producer on the Netflix documentary Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator. She was the lead Producer on the Grammy-winning HBO documentary series, The Defiant Ones, and on The Price of Free (formerly titled Kailash), a documentary about child slavery which won the 2018 Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize. She was the Consulting Producer for Making a Murderer Season 2 for Netflix. She is currently Story Producer on an unannounced series for Imagine Entertainment, Lucasfilm and Disney+ with director Lawrence Kasdan.

Anthony began her career in London, with films on subjects ranging from the Iraq war to the Ming Voyages of the 1400’s. She was Associate Producer for PBS FRONTLINE on The Age of AIDS, a four hour series covering the history of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In 2007 Anthony moved to Los Angeles and joined Exclusive Media as the Co-head of Documentary Features. At Exclusive she supervised development, production and distribution on multiple documentaries including Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Billy Joel’s Last Play at Shea, and the Academy Award-winning Undefeated. She then returned to FRONTLINE as co-producer on Endgame: AIDS In Black America, and from there went on to line-produce The World According to Dick Cheney for Showtime with R.J. Cutler.

Anthony has worked extensively with director Davis Guggenheim and the Emerson Collective on a variety of social justice issues, from immigration reform to re-designing the American high school system.

Speech Topics


Documentary films; Art and Social Justice; The marriage of creative and financial in film; Women in film; film budgeting; What does a producer do? ; film scheduling; Finding your purpose; "Making it" in Los Angeles; Reiki

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