Sara Colangelo

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Sara Colangelo is an American film director and screenwriter known for her films Little Accidents and Worth . Filmmaker Magazine named her one of its "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2010. [1] [2]

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Colangelo graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1997 and Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2001. [3] She received her MFA at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. [4]

Her NYU thesis project, a short film called Little Accidents, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It won the Grand Jury Prizes for Narrative Short from the Seattle International Film Festival. [4] A full length somewhat different version of the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. [5] [6] Colangelo was invited to Sundance Labs' Writing Lab and later to their Directing Lab. [6]

Colangelo's remake of an Israeli film, The Kindergarten Teacher , won a directing award in Sundance's dramatic film category and was picked up by Netflix in 2018. [7] [8]

Her film Worth , written by Max Borenstein, was called "a provocative moral thriller" and explored the nuances of determining the value of a lost life for the 911 victims fund. [9]

Personal life

Colangelo grew up in Leominster, Massachusetts. [10] She married Chris Trujillo on November 5, 2016. [11] The couple live in Brooklyn. [11]

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  1. ↑ "25 New Faces of Indie Film Unveiled". IndieWire. 2010-07-25. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  2. ↑ Dargis, Manohla (2015-01-16). "'Little Accidents,' an Independent Movie by Sara Colangelo". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  3. ↑ "At Sundance". Brown Alumni Magazine. 2018-04-02. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  4. 1 2 "Sara Colangelo". Filmmaker Magazine. 2010-07-24. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  5. ↑ "The Kindergarten Teacher". Sundance Institute. 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  6. 1 2 Hollwedel, Zach (2020-03-17). "Sara Colangelo, Director of "Little Accidents"". Under The Radar Magazine. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  7. ↑ Kit, Borys. "Netflix Picks Up Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Kindergarten Teacher'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  8. ↑ Ryzik, Melena (2017-02-01). "Directors From Sundance on What Happened Next". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  9. ↑ Saito, Stephen (2020-01-29). "Sundance 2020 Review: Sara Colangelo Brings Out the Real Value in "Worth"". The Moveable Fest. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  10. ↑ Keras, Caroline (February 26, 2010). "'Little Accidents'". Leominster Champion. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  11. 1 2 Romeyn, Kathryn (2010-01-01). "A Wildly Elegant Fall Wedding". Brides. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
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