NEW DAY FILMS BY
Sarah Feinbloom:

What Do You Believe?

Producer's Web Site:
www.whatdoyoubelieve.org

Sarah Feinbloom, Director, Producer, Cinematographer is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes documentaries, dramatic narrative, and fundraising videos. She received a California Council for the Humanities Grant, The Paul Robeson Grant for Independent Media, and the Pacific Pioneer Award for her 50-minute documentary What Do You Believe?- the religious and spiritual lives of American teenagers, www.whatdoyoubelieve.org. What Do You Believe? was sponsored by Film Arts Foundation. What Do You Believe?, has aired on PBS stations WGBH and KCET and has been screened nationally and internationally at venues including the 2002 Mill Valley Film Festival, the Toronto Childrens Film Festival, the Religion Today Film Festival in Italy, and at conferences including the National Association of Multicultural Educators the American Academy of Religion. It was voted "One of Ten Best Videos for Young Adults in 2003" by the American Library Association, and is being distributed nationally by New Day Films.

Her other projects include Youth to Youth-a video about violence, which examines racism, rape, war, growing up with violence, and police brutality through young peoples eyes. This 30-minute documentary was featured on National Public Radio, in the Boston Globe, and the School Library Journal and is being distributed in the educational market nationally by Sunburst Communications. Which Way, Por Favor? - an independent feature film, which she produced in Mexico, is being distributed in video stores by Ardustry Entertainment and was the audience favorite at the San Francisco Indie-Fest and the Ajijic Festival International de Cine.

In April 2005 she finished Daughters and Sons - Preventing Child-trafficking in the Golden Triangle, a half hour documentary which she produced, directed and shot. Daughters and Sons is being used to raise money to support the Development and Educational Program for Daughters and Communities in Thailand www.depdc.org which rescues children before they are trafficked into the sex-industry and other forms of forced labor. Daughters and Sons premiered at the Boston International Film Festival and was featured on the NPR program The World which is a co-production of the BBC and WGBH.

She has a B.A. in Political Science from Barnard College, Columbia University and an M.A. in Education from Tufts University. In addition to filmmaking for the past eighteen years, she has worked as a public school teacher and a coordinator of youth programs committed to social justice and cross-cultural understanding with organizations including the American Friends Service Committee and the San Francisco Volunteer Center. She also has traveled widely and speaks French and Spanish.

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