About: Sara Sowell is a video editor, artist and filmmaker. Born in Houston, Texas, Sowell received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Sara has a decade of editing experience with clients in NYC cutting documentary, commercial and branded content, and experimental hybrid films with filmmaker Lily Baldwin. She has worked for Shadow, Condé Nast, Refinery29, Genius, BDG Media, and TAG Creative. In 2019 she edited the feature-length documentary Universe, winner of DOC NYC’s Best Music Documentary.
Artist Bio: Sara Sowell is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in Chicago, IL. Her film, performance and installation work reanimates legacies of art and media production with irreverence through photographic abstraction and other interventions. Her work has shown in artist-run spaces and international film festivals including Chicago Film Society, Chicago, IL; Light Field, San Francisco, CA; Microscope Gallery, New York, NY; Baltic Analog Lab, Riga, LV; International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL and Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival, Porto, PT. Prints and digital files of her films are available for distribution through Light Cone.
