
Sara Bernstein
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.
Filmography50+ titles

Kyle Larson vs. The Double

Marty, Life Is Short

Music by John Williams

The Dynasty: New England Patriots

Jim Henson: Idea Man

Light & Magic

Citizenfour

David Blaine: Do Not Attempt

Churchill at War

Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman

Cobain: Montage of Heck

We Are: The Brooklyn Saints

The Lost Children

Mommy Dead and Dearest

My Depression (The Up and Down and Up of It)

Judy Blume Forever

Paper & Glue

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God

The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari

Hot Coffee

Carlos

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

Lucy and Desi

D. Wade: Life Unexpected

A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness

We Feed People

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter

The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley

Warning: This Drug May Kill You

War Dog: A Soldier's Best Friend

Who Are You, Charlie Brown?

The Case Against Adnan Syed

Rolling Stone: Stories from the Edge

Risky Drinking

Secrets of the Tribe

Pets

Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything

Once Were Brothers

Suited

The Truth About Jim

Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine

Frida

Stormy

The Super Models

Leave No Trace

Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer

Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness

Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet

Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues