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Sarah Weinstein
Los Angeles
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Title/Occupation:  Director 
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian/White
Citizenship: USA
Languages Spoken: Spanish

Biography: 

Sarah Weinstein was born four minutes after her identical twin Elizabeth in Cincinnati, Ohio. She grew up in Champaign, Illinois herding sheep around county fairs, singing in children's choirs and attempting to play the cello. As a junior at Illinois Wesleyan University, Sarah decided her psychology major and Spanish minor would be best used doing an internship at Dateline NBC in Washington. After a short stint rushing scripts to Peter Jennings at the 1996 Democratic National Convention, she packed up her green Chevy Malibu, headed for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and settled in Harlem next door to Sigmund Freud's elderly cousin.
After a year of interviewing Holocaust survivors, cult members and New York City politicians, Sarah got her Master’s degree and moved to Los Angeles. In LA, she worked as a script reader and coverage writer for Silver Pictures and Wendy Finerman Productions. In 1998, she signed on as a production assistant on the set of the third season of the WB's "7th Heaven".
In 1999, Sarah returned to her journalism roots at CNN in Atlanta where she became one of the only women in the company to sign up as a "one-man band" -- shooting, producing and editing stories from coast to coast. As a writer at CNN Headline News, she was one of the first to report the capture of Saddam Hussein. She also co-developed a show on CNN International and filled in as a news anchor on CNN's Turner South Network.
In 2004, Sarah started work in Hollywood on her first feature-length documentary about pop/rock songwriter/producer Graham Edwards. Sarah does regular work producing short films for the Discovery Channel and has also produced, directed and edited music videos (Above and Beyond and Courtney Jones), EPKs, short films and commercials for clients including Microsoft, AOL, Panasonic, Chiat/Day, Capitol/Virgin Records (Ferras and Korn), Columbia Records (The Matrix Record Featuring Katy Perry), Let’s Hear It Records, TurnHere.com, Disney.com, Intercontinental Hotels, the City of Los Angeles, Cuatro TV (Spain) and PBS among others.
She is currently co-directing and shooting a feature-length documentary on Proposition 8 and collaborating on a film and recording project with The Matrix and Tokio Hotel.
Her video and film career has taken her from the Scottish highlands to the Grand Canyon to 20,000 feet up in an F-16 fighter jet.
When she's not working, Sarah enjoys reading, running on the beach, singing with the Angeles Chorale and traveling the world.
Sarah is represented as a director by Bucks Boys (www.bucksboys.com).