about

Sara Wylie (she/they) is a filmmaker, producer and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (aka Vancouver, BC). Her work focuses on archives and counter-archives, radical histories, embodied methodologies, disabled ecologies and crip intimacies.

As a director/producer, Sara’s award-winning short documentary and experimental films have screened at film festivals around the world. She graduated with distinction from Toronto Metropolitan University’s Documentary Media MFA Program in 2019, and her projects have been supported by Field of Vision’s IF/THEN Shorts, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and SSHRC.

As a producer and associate producer, Sara has worked on award-winning short non-fiction films (like Handsome & Majestic, 2016) and a feature (Wizard Mode, 2016) that have screened at Hot Docs Film Festival, BFI Flare, Inside Out LGBTQ+ Festival, Vancouver Queer Film Festival and more. They have also worked as a story producer and field producer for several documentary series produced by Vice, The Travel Channel and Telus. Sara is currently producing Sophy Romvari’s upcoming feature film, Blue Heron, a Canadian-Hungarian co-production in association with MEMORY.

sekwylie (at) gmail (dot) com 

instagram: @sara_wylie

https://vimeo.com/sarawylie