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Sara Bernstein
Producer, Additional CreditsBorn January 1, 1973 (52 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 2025 | Earnhardt (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | |
| 2025 | Fight for Glory: 2024 World Series (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | David Blaine: Do Not Attempt (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Harlem Ice (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | Churchill at War (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | The Lost Children · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | I'm Not a Monster: The Lois Riess Murders (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | Stormy · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | |
| 2024 | The Dynasty: New England Patriots (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2024 | The Truth About Jim (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | The Super Models (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Eurovision Choir of the Year (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | |
| 2023 | Bono & The Edge: A Sort of Homecoming with Dave Letterman · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Murf the Surf (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | LIGHT & MAGIC (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2022 | Lucy and Desi · as Executive Producer |
| 2022 | |
| 2021 | Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Coded · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | |
| 2021 | Gossip (2021) (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Who Are You, Charlie Brown? · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | The Day Sports Stood Still · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 6ix9ine (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | Crime Scene (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2021 | We Are: The Brooklyn Saints (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | On Pointe (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2020 | |
| 2020 | |
| 2019 | Once Were Brothers · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Dads · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | The Case Against Adnan Syed (TV Series) · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Truth About Killer Robots · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Price of Everything · as Executive Producer |
| 2017 | |
| 2017 | |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | Clínica de Migrantes: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness · as Executive Producer |
| 2015 | Cobain: Montage of Heck · as Executive Producer |
| 2011 | |
| 2004 | Three Sisters: Searching for a Cure · as Associate Producer |
| 2003 | And Along Came a Spider · as Associate Producer |
| 1990 | Real Sex (TV Series) · as Associate Producer |