Sarah Hanssen’s film and video works have shown at festivals and screenings throughout North America and Europe. She received her Masters of Fine Art in film and video at the Massachusetts College of Art. She works as a programmer for the Hamptons International Film Festival and an assistant professor at Pratt Institute. Her most recent accomplishments include the birth of two excellent daughters. She lives in New York City.
A film about one man’s journey to answer some of the most profound questions of life: what’s wrong with our world, and what can we do to make it better?
I admire that this filmmaker wasn’t trying to tell a story she didn’t know, but took the risk of creating a work that was close to home, albeit somewhat self-indulgent.
The Social Network inspires complicated questions of why we create and how we measure our own worth and morality.
Sarah Hanssen discusses documentary film-making and the “people’s playground” with director J.L. Aronson.
Sarah Hanssen talks with Greg King about his new documentary, Our House, which explores an intentional Christian community in an abandoned warehouse-turned-homestead for the chronically homeless and recovering addicts in Brooklyn.
Filmmakers – and sisters – Sarah and Emily Kunstler talk with Sarah Hanssen about their new documentary and their father’s fight for justice.
Up In The Air gets so many of our modern conundrums right that it’s hard not to classify the film as a tragedy, even with some great laughs.
Two films with similar settings, but very different outlooks on success, help us examine our own ideas about privilege, hard work, and what makes us feel valued.
The Baader Meinhof Complex is a complex, challenging film about extremism and powerlessness.
Filmmaker Sophie Barthes was born in France and grew up in the Middle East and South America. A Columbia University graduate, Barthes has made short films that garnered numerous awards. She completed residencies at the Nantucket Screenwriters Colony and the 2007 Sundance Directors Lab. Her new film, Cold Souls, is in selected theaters now. The [...]