Sarah Winshall

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Sarah Winshall
OccupationProducer
Years active2019–present

Sarah Winshall is an American film producer. She has produced Strawberry Mansion (2021), We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022), I Saw the TV Glow (2024) and Good One (2024).

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Early life

Winshall attended The New School receiving a Master's degree in Media Management, and was a graduate of NYU's Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies. [1] [2]

Career

Apart from producing, Winshall is a film critic, with her work being published in Filmmaker , Screen Slate and Under the Radar . [3] [4]

She is the founder of Smudge Films, a production company, under which she has produced Clara's Ghost by Bridey Elliott, [5] Strawberry Mansion by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley, [6] Give Me Pity and By Design by Amanda Kramer. [7] [8] We're All Going to the World's Fair and I Saw the TV Glow by Jane Schoenbrun, [9] [10] and Good One by India Donaldson. [11]

In 2024, Winshall alongside Micah Gottlieb co-founded the film festival Los Angeles Festival of Movies. [12]

Filmography

Film

YearFilmCredit
2018 Clara's Ghost
2019Leave the Bus Through the Broken WindowCo-producer
2021 Strawberry Mansion
2022 We're All Going to the World's Fair
Give Me Pity!
2024 I Saw the TV Glow
Good One Executive producer
Dream TeamExecutive producer
2025 By Design

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