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sarah . teitler at gmail . com
Sarah Teitler is an independent video producer and editor who specializes in documentary.

CV (pdf)

She has worked in television production and post-production, and as an independent producer/director, videographer, grant writer, archival researcher and consultant. Below are excerpts from some of the work she has edited and/or produced.

For additional information, or a copy of Sarah's reel, send request to sarah . teitler at gmail . com

 
Film/Video and Web Work
2009 Editor/Co-writer, feature-length documentary about Cuban artists (in progress).
2003 - Present Editor, Practica Group, Qualitative Market Research and Consulting
2008 - 2009 Multi-media Officer, Mercy Corps' Action Center to End World Hunger. Trained field staff in over 20 countries to develop and produce video field dispatches about their global relief and development activities; post-produced videos; and managed the cataloging and circulation of videos at the Action Center and online.
2007 Editor, Looming Crises: Can We Act in Time?, promotional video about conference of same name at John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
2007 Editor, Meet-the-Pros, documentary portraits of a registered nurse, a civil engineer, and a public school teacher, STEP/New York University
2007 Director/Camera/Editor, Education in Dance, documentary short about non-profit integrated arts program for students pre-k to high school
2006 Editor, The Rise and Fall of Penn Station (work-in-progress), Michael Tramis, producer/director
2006 Additional Editor, The Colors of Macedonia, Pavlina Proevska, producer/director
2005 Director/Camera/Editor, All Roads Lead to the Sea (58 minutes): experimental documentary about Havana, Cuba. Screenings include Big Muddy Film Festival, Chicago Latino Film Festival, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, 15th Latin American Film Festival (London), Latin American Studies Assoc. Film Festival (winner of Award of Merit). Project supported by New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund
2002 - 2004 Video Research Resident, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University. Advise department on issues relating to digital video, maintain digital video computer lab, mentor students, oversee departmental streaming activities
1999 - 2003 Website development, design and implementation, Corduroy Design, Clients: Barnard College, the Chiapas Media Project, Eyebeam Atelier, Resnicow Schroeder Associates, NYU/Tisch and Trouble Magnet comics, among others
1998 Director/Camera/Editor, Postales (22 minutes): experimental video documentary about the nature of longing, memory and home, shot in Mexico City. Screenings include Festival Internacional de Cortometraje de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico, Conferencia Binacional Mexico-Estados Unidos de Cortometraje, Mexico
1994 Associate Producer and Editor, Will to Transform, industrial video for Cigna Insurance, RunTime Productions, Inc. Carli Roni, producer
1994 Associate Producer, Beyond Denial: Addiction in America, Public Eye Productions. Scott Sinkler, producer
1993 Associate Producer/Archival Research, Uprising of '34, Uprising of '34 Productions. Judith Helfand and George Stoney, producers
1993 Assistant Coordinator, The Equalizer, Universal-TV; Postproduction Coordinator, The Street, Universal-TV; Assistant Editor, Troma Entertainment; Production Assistant, Tales From the Darkside (GeorgeRomero/ Lorimar Entertainment), Laurie Anderson's Home of the Brave, among others
Selected Panels, Awards, Curatorial Posts
2007 Presenter, Cinethnography - The Visual as a Site for Critical Research, New School for Social Research
2006 Award of Merit, Latin American Studies Association, All Roads Lead to the Sea
2003 Review Panelist, Research Award Program, Photography, City University of New York
2004 Individual Media Artist Grant, Jerome Foundation
2003 Individual Media Artist Grant, Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund
2002 Juror, Organizing Committee member, IV Salon y Coloquio de Arte Digital, Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba
2000 Interval Research Fellowship, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University
1991 Curator, CityLore Film Festival, City Lore, New York
1991 NYU Chancellor's Service Award, recognition for coordinating and programming film series
Teaching
2005 - present Adjunct Asst. Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU. Experimental Documentary
2005 - 2006 Lecturer, School of Art + Design, SUNY/Purchase. Video Art
2001 Artist-in-Residence/Instructor, Chelsea Vocational Public High School; Eyebeam Atelier, New York
2000 Adjunct Asst. Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU. Communications Lab (introduction to new media: theory, criticism and practice)
2000 Adjunct Asst. Professor, Media and Communications, City College of New York (CCNY). Research and Writing for Media lab
1999 Instructor/Technical Advisor, Eyebeam Atelier, Digital Day Camp
Consulting
2001 - 2002 Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Habana, Cuba
2001 - 2002 Center for Indigenous Video, Oaxaca, Mexico
Publications
1996 - 1997 Feature Writer/Assistant Editor, cultural section of The Mexico City News, Mexico City, Mexico
1997 "Kunst und Kultur in Der U-Bahn von Mexico City" in Kunststadt/Stadtkunst, Volume 42, Summer 1997, pp 9-11. Berlin
1990 "Margaret Mead Film Festival 1990" Review, in CVA Review, Spring, 1990, pp. 58-59. Montreal, Canada
1990 "Revisioning New York. Why History?: Race and Class in New York City" with Brian Larkin. AfterImage 19(2)
Education
  MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU
MA, Anthropology, NYU
Certificate, Program in Culture and Media, NYU
BA, Literature and Religion, NYU