Sarah Moshman
Emmy Award-Winning Filmmaker | Storyteller | Author | Netflix, Hulu, Upworthy, CNN, and GMA Featured | Passion for Strong Female Role Models on Screen
Sarah Moshman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker whose work has been featured on Upworthy, Marie Claire, CNN, and Good Morning America.
Sarah has worked behind the camera on hits shows like Dancing with the Stars, Top Chef Masters, Minute to Win It and more.
After directing two short documentaries about female empowerment in young women, (Girls Rock! Chicago (2010) and Growing up Strong: Girls on the Run (2012)) she set out to direct her first feature doc The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things (2014) which has been screened over 700 times around the US and around the world in schools, groups, organizations and corporations starting conversations about gender equality. With Indieflix as the distributor, the film has been sponsored by major brands like Nordstrom, American Girl and Microsoft to spread this message far and wide.
Sarah's second feature doc, Losing Sight of Shore follows the incredible journey of four women who rowed across the Pacific Ocean. The film was released globally in 190 countries on Netflix in May 2017.
NEVERTHELESS is Sarah's third feature documentary which take a look behind the headlines of #MeToo and Time's Up to shine a light on the sexual harassment crisis and how we can rebuild our culture. Sarah is dedicated to telling stories that uplift, inform and inspire as well as showcase strong female role models on screen.
Sarah is an inspiring public speaker and an adjunct professor in documentary film, passionate about empowering the next generation of storytellers.
What is YOUR story?!
Sarah Moshman is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and TEDx speaker whose work has been featured on Upworthy, Marie Claire, CNN, and Good Morning America.
Sarah has worked behind the camera on hits shows like Dancing with the Stars, Top Chef Masters, Minute to Win It and more.
After directing two short documentaries about female empowerment in young women, (Girls Rock! Chicago (2010) and Growing up Strong: Girls on the Run (2012)) she set out to direct her first feature doc The Empowerment Project: Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things (2014) which has been screened over 700 times around the US and around the world in schools, groups, organizations and corporations starting conversations about gender equality. With Indieflix as the distributor, the film has been sponsored by major brands like Nordstrom, American Girl and Microsoft to spread this message far and wide.
Sarah's second feature doc, Losing Sight of Shore follows the incredible journey of four women who rowed across the Pacific Ocean. The film was released globally in 190 countries on Netflix in May 2017.
NEVERTHELESS is Sarah's third feature documentary which take a look behind the headlines of #MeToo and Time's Up to shine a light on the sexual harassment crisis and how we can rebuild our culture. Sarah is dedicated to telling stories that uplift, inform and inspire as well as showcase strong female role models on screen.
Sarah is an inspiring public speaker and an adjunct professor in documentary film, passionate about empowering the next generation of storytellers.
What is YOUR story?!
Being Bold and Naïve
Born and raised in Evanston, Illinois - Sarah takes us through how her love of filmmaking began and how the camera gave her a voice and a courage she hadn't discovered yet. Sarah took her passions to film school, moved out to Los Angeles and landed her very first job on the hit ABC show Dancing with the Stars. And although the job had its perks - 20 million viewers, a slew of celebrity talent to work with - Sarah felt like something was missing in her career and in her life. She set out to...
Nevertheless We Persist
As a documentary filmmaker, Sarah's work is intertwined with entrepreneurship, activism and storytelling. In this keynote, Sarah guides us through her initial impetus for taking on a project about sexual harassment in the wake of #MeToo and her journey to tell the stories behind the headlines in the form of her latest documentary NEVERTHELESS.
This keynote and this film are not about pointing the finger at any one person or company, it is about the ways in which all of us can be...
