Sara Colangelo

{{Short description|American writer and film director}}

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Sara Colangelo is an American film director and screenwriter known for her films Little Accidents and Worth. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of its "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2010.{{cite web | title=25 New Faces of Indie Film Unveiled | website=IndieWire | date=2010-07-25 | url=https://www.indiewire.com/2010/07/25-new-faces-of-indie-film-unveiled-245245/ | access-date=2021-08-09}}{{cite web |last=Dargis|first=Manohla | title='Little Accidents,' an Independent Movie by Sara Colangelo | website=The New York Times | date=2015-01-16 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/movies/little-accidents-an-independent-movie-by-sara-colangelo.html | access-date=2021-08-09}}

Colangelo graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1997 and Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2001.{{cite web | title=At Sundance | website=Brown Alumni Magazine | date=2018-04-02 | url=https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/index.php/articles/2018-04-02/at-sundance | access-date=2021-08-09}} She received her MFA at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.{{cite web | title=Sara Colangelo | website=Filmmaker Magazine| date=2010-07-24 | url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/people/sara-colangelo/ | access-date=2021-08-09}}

Her NYU thesis project, a short film called Little Accidents, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It won the Grand Jury Prizes for Narrative Short from the Seattle International Film Festival. A full length somewhat different version of the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay.{{cite web | title=The Kindergarten Teacher | website=Sundance Institute | date=2021-02-03 | url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/the-kindergarten-teacher | access-date=2021-08-09}}{{cite web | last=Hollwedel | first=Zach | title=Sara Colangelo, Director of "Little Accidents" | website=Under The Radar Magazine | date=2020-03-17 | url=https://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/sara_colangelo_director_of_little_accidents | access-date=2021-08-09}} Colangelo was invited to Sundance Labs' Writing Lab and later to their Directing Lab.

Colangelo's remake of an Israeli film, The Kindergarten Teacher, won a directing award in Sundance's dramatic film category and was picked up by Netflix in 2018.{{cite web | last=Kit|first=Borys|title=Netflix Picks Up Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Kindergarten Teacher'| website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=22 February 2018 | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/netflix-picks-up-maggie-gyllenhaals-kindergarten-teacher-1087271/#! | access-date=2021-08-09}}{{cite web |last=Ryzik|first=Melena| title=Directors From Sundance on What Happened Next | website=The New York Times | date=2017-02-01 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/movies/directors-sundance.html | access-date=2021-08-09}}

Her film Worth, written by Max Borenstein, was called "a provocative moral thriller" and explored the nuances of determining the value of a lost life for the 911 victims fund.{{cite web |last=Saito|first=Stephen| title=Sundance 2020 Review: Sara Colangelo Brings Out the Real Value in "Worth" | website=The Moveable Fest | date=2020-01-29 | url=https://moveablefest.com/sara-colangelo-worth/ | access-date=2021-08-09}}