Sara Bernstein

Background

About Sara Bernstein

Sara Bernstein is an award-winning producer and President of Imagine Documentaries. Recent projects include Judy Blume Forever (Amazon Studios), Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman (Disney+), The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (Netflix), Louis Armstrong’s Black & Blues (Apple TV+), Downfall:The Case Against Boeing (Netflix), Lucy & Desi (Amazon Studios), We Feed People ( Natgeo Films), Leave No Trace (ABC/Hulu), Julia ( Sony Classics/CNN Films), Who Are You Charlie Brown?(Apple TV+), DADS (Apple TV+), Rebuilding Paradise (National Geographic Documentary Films), D. Wade: Life Unexpected (ESPN Films), Gossip (Showtime), Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine (Showtime), On Pointe (Disney+), We Are The Brooklyn Saints (Netflix) and Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (Netflix.) Prior to joining Imagine, Bernstein was SVP, HBO Documentary Films overseeing award-winning nonfiction programming for the network including Emmy® winner The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling, Academy Award® and Emmy® winner Citizenfour, Emmy® winner Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Academy Award® winner Music By Prudence, Emmy® nominated Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, Emmy® nominated The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, and Mommy Dead and Dearest. Over the years, Bernstein has garnered 11 Emmy® wins and 33 Emmy® nominations, 11 Peabody Awards and the films she has supervised have won 2 Academy Awards® and 13 Academy Award® nominations. Bernstein was also featured on Variety’s 2020 New York Power of Women Impact list.