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.
The documentary Battle for Brooklyn, co-directed by Suki Hawley and Michael Galinsky, follows community activist Daniel Goldstein as he fights to preserve his community in the face of the massive Atlantic Yards development that threatens to carve up Prospect Heights. The proposed project would displace many lifelong residents as well as those new to the [...]
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Is it really that easy to steal millions?
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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?
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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.
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The Social Network inspires complicated questions of why we create and how we measure our own worth and morality.
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Sarah Hanssen discusses documentary film-making and the “people’s playground” with director J.L. Aronson.
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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.
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Filmmakers – and sisters – Sarah and Emily Kunstler talk with Sarah Hanssen about their new documentary and their father’s fight for justice.
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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.
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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.
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