Sara Shaw is a Brooklyn-based director and editor. With a background in music, she began her film career at Boston's WGBH and then worked in acquisitions at Sony Pictures Classics. While attending NYU's Graduate Filmmaking program, she wrote and directed award-winning films, including BALLARAT GHOST TOWN, which won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the 2010 Fusion Film Festival. She has edited commercials for James Franco and was Associate Editor on Christina Voros's THE DIRECTOR (Tribeca 2013). She edited Desiree Akhavan's narrative feature debut, APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR (Sundance 2014), Frances Bodomo's AFRONAUTS (Sundance 2014), Joey Kuhn's THOSE PEOPLE (Outfest 2016), Adam Leon's TRAMPS (Toronto 2016), and Theresa Rebeck's TROUBLE, starring Anjelica Huston and Bill Pullman. She edited 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST. Most recently she edited VAMPIRES VS. THE BRONX, directed by SNL's Oz Rodriguez and produced by Lorne Michaels, as well as Michael Covino's THE CLIMB for Topic Studios. Sara has directed short films for Vogue starring Awkwafina and THE FLORIDA PROJECT'S Bria Vinaite. She directed and co-wrote the short film TOOTH AND NAIL, which played at SXSW 2018 and won the Audience Award at Outfest.