Sara Bernstein
- 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.
Known For
Citizenfour
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
Music by John Williams
The Lost Children
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Filmography
The Sound of Philadelphia
Movie · Executive Producer
The Hands That Held the Knives
Movie · Executive Producer
Pa'l Pueblo: Fania for the People
Movie · Producer
Summer of '94
Movie · Executive Producer
Marty, Life Is Short
Movie · Producer
Avedon
Movie · Producer
Kyle Larson vs. The Double
Movie · Executive Producer
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing
Movie · Producer
Swipe Right on the Devil
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Movie · Producer
Pets
Movie · Producer
David Blaine: Do Not Attempt
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Harlem Ice
TV · Executive Producer · 5 eps
Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Earnhardt
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Frida
Movie · Producer
Stormy
Movie · Executive Producer
Jim Henson Idea Man
Movie · Producer
Music by John Williams
Movie · Producer
The Lost Children
Movie · Executive Producer
Mamus
Movie · Executive Producer
The Dynasty: New England Patriots
TV · Executive Producer · 10 eps
Choir
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
The Truth About Jim
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
I'm Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders
TV · Executive Producer · 2 eps
Churchill at War
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
This Is Brighton
Movie · Executive Producer
Judy Blume Forever
Movie · Producer
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
Movie · Executive Producer
Carlos
Movie · Producer
Murf the Surf: Jewels, Jesus, and Mayhem in the USA
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
The Super Models
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
Movie · Producer
Leave No Trace
Movie · Producer
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Movie · Producer
We Feed People
Movie · Producer
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Movie · Producer
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Movie · Producer
Lucy and Desi
Movie · Executive Producer
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
LIGHT & MAGIC
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Paper & Glue
Movie · Producer
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Movie · Executive Producer
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Movie · Executive Producer
Julia
Movie · Producer
The Day Sports Stood Still
Movie · Executive Producer
We Are: The Brooklyn Saints
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Gossip
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer
TV · Executive Producer · 3 eps
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band
Movie · Executive Producer
Rebuilding Paradise
Movie · Producer
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
Movie · Producer
On Pointe
TV · Executive Producer · 6 eps
Wig
Movie · Co-Executive Producer
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Movie · Executive Producer
I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter
TV · Supervising Producer · 2 eps
The Case Against Adnan Syed
TV · Executive Producer · 4 eps
The Truth About Killer Robots
Movie · Executive Producer
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Movie · Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Movie · Supervising Producer
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
Movie · Producer
Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge
TV · Senior Executive Consultant · 2 eps
Suited
Movie · Producer
Risky Drinking
Movie · Senior Executive Consultant
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Movie · Executive Producer
Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
Movie · Other
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Movie · Executive Producer, Other
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Movie · Supervising Producer
Thought Crimes
Movie · Supervising Producer
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Movie · Supervising Producer
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Movie · Supervising Producer
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Movie · Supervising Producer
The Case Against 8
Movie · Supervising Producer
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Movie · Supervising Producer
Hot Coffee
Movie · Supervising Producer
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
Movie · Producer
Love Crimes Of Kabul
Movie · Supervising Producer
Secrets of the Tribe
Movie · Supervising Producer
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
Movie · Supervising Producer
The Final Inch
Movie · Supervising Producer
Katie Morgan on Sex Toys
Movie · Coordinating Producer
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
Movie · Coordinating Producer
The Children of Leningradsky
Movie · Production Coordinator
Thoth
Movie · Coordinating Producer
And Along Came a Spider
Movie · Associate Producer