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Sarah Smith is an award-winning writer, director, and editor. Her latest short film Cardiff, a comedy featuring the LGBTQ+ community filmed in Cardiff, Wales, was nominated for a 2023 BAFTA Cymru. Her previous short, Black Hat, was an official selection of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival and won the 2019 Iris prize. Her first short, D.Asian, screened at over 35 festivals across the globe, and was awarded the 2017 AT&T Underrepresented Filmmaker Award. Sarah also won a WGA award as part of The Young & The Restless writing team. In addition to writing and directing, Sarah has edited three narrative feature films, including Armless, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and two feature length documentaries, including Rise Again, following Israeli and Palestinian musicians as they join forces to wage war for peace. In 2023, Sarah became an editing fellow as part of Film Independent’s Project Involve where she was awarded the Amazon MGM Studios Film Fellowship grant. Most recently, Sarah became part of the 2024-2025 Disney Directing Program cohort. Sarah is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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