Sara Newens is an award-winning director, producer, and editor whose films have premiered at top international festivals including Sundance, IDFA, SXSW, and Telluride.

As an editor, she has received multiple Emmy nominations for her work on The White House Effect (Netflix), Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Hulu), which also won the Cinema Eye Honors award for Best Broadcast Editing, and Allen v. Farrow (HBO), which received additional nods from the Cinema Eye Honors and American Cinema Editors (ACE) Eddie Awards. In 2016, she won a Sports Emmy for her coverage of the Olympic Games in Rio.

As a director, Sara most recently collaborated with Mina T. Son on Racist Trees, a feature film about a racially charged community dispute in Palm Springs acquired by PBS's Independent Lens. The pair's directorial debut, Top Spin, followed three young table tennis players on their journey to the Olympics and was released theatrically to great acclaim. She also directed the New York Times Op-Doc short, Footprint: Where the Towers Stood, which offers a poetic look at the 9/11 Memorial grounds.

A graduate of Stanford University's MFA Documentary Film Program, Sara has served as a mentor for the Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship and Film Independent's Documentary Lab. She is based in LA and currently editing a film on the life and career of Barbra Streisand, in addition to developing original work through her production company Wild Pair Films.