Sara Colangelo is a Student Academy Award nominated director and recent graduate of New York University's Kanbar Institute of Film & Television- Graduate Film Division.

Sara graduated from Brown University in 2001 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. After graduating, she received a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Bologna, in Italy. There, she studied documentary filmmaking, Italian Cinema and Politics and began to have a more pointed interest in filmmaking. Sara's documentary film, HALAL VIVERO, which explores the lives of immigrants in New York City, traveled to numerous film festivals and was a National Finalist at the 2006 Student Academy Awards. Her second film, UN ATTIMO DI RESPIRO (A MOMENT TO BREATHE) has screened at over 15 international film festivals including the Tribeca Film Festival and SXSW Film Festival. The film earned Sara a Wasserman Prize for Best Direction at New York University, as well as a nomination for the 2007 Princess Grace Foundation Arts Fellowship. In June 2007, Sara presented the film to the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles.

Sara's most recent film, LITTLE ACCIDENTS, had its world premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It is a winner of the 2010 Riese Organization Award and 2010 Warner Bros. Production Award. Sara is currently working on a feature-length script, which draws inspiration, tone, and characters from her latest short.

She is also in post-production on a feature-length documentary, BILL, about the life of Bill Gage, a man with Down Syndrome who is the lead singer of a Boston area punk band.

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