Sara Bernstein

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.

Crew

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
Producer
Paper & Glue
Producer
Suited
Producer
Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
Executive Producer
Hot Coffee
Supervising Producer
Coded: The Hidden Love of J.C. Leyendecker
Executive Producer
The Education of Dee Dee Ricks
Producer
Leave No Trace
Producer
Julia
Producer
Citizenfour
Supervisor of Production Resources
Cobain: Montage of Heck
Executive Producer
The Day Sports Stood Still
Executive Producer
This Is Brighton
Executive Producer
My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)
Supervisor of Production Resources, Supervising Producer
Frida
Producer
Thoth
Coordinating Producer
Personality Crisis: One Night Only
Producer
We Feed People
Producer
The Latin Explosion: A New America
Supervising Producer
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Producer
The Children of Leningradsky
Production Coordinator
Stormy
Executive Producer
Secrets of the Tribe
Supervising Producer
Thought Crimes
Supervising Producer
Judy Blume Forever
Producer
Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman
Executive Producer
Wig
Co-Executive Producer
The Sound of Philadelphia
Executive Producer
Risky Drinking
Senior Executive Consultant
A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness
Supervising Producer
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
Producer
Warning: This Drug May Kill You
Producer
Mommy Dead and Dearest
Supervising Producer
Jim Henson Idea Man
Producer
War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend
Producer
Carlos
Producer
Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything
Producer
The Hands That Held the Knives
Executive Producer
Katie Morgan on Sex Toys
Coordinating Producer
Katie Morgan's Porn 101
Coordinating Producer
Katie Morgan's Sex Tips 2: Any More Questions?
Supervising Producer
The Truth About Killer Robots
Executive Producer
Music by John Williams
Producer
The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley
Executive Producer
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band
Executive Producer
And Along Came a Spider
Associate Producer
Rebuilding Paradise
Producer
Love Crimes Of Kabul
Supervising Producer
Lucy and Desi
Executive Producer
D. Wade: Life Unexpected
Producer
Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Executive Producer
The Lost Children
Executive Producer
Pets
Producer
Mamus
Executive Producer