Producer Sara Archambault Joins Harvard’s Shorenstein Center to Lead New Initiative on “Documentary Films for the Common Good”
Exclusive: Award-winning documentary producer and film programmer Sarah Archambault are participating in Shorenstein Center in Media, Politics and Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Newly Appointed Documentary Film Projects As her manager, Archambault will oversee new initiatives on documentary film for the public good.
“This initiative will engage academics, filmmakers, journalists and industry leaders on the key issues facing the documentary film industry today,” said Archambault, according to a release announcing the appointment of the prize. ”
(Left to right) Sara Archambault, Sierra Pettengill, and Jamila Wignot of ‘Riotsville, USA’ attend the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards in Santa Monica, CA on March 4, 2023.
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Archambault’s latest producing credits include: Riotsville, USA and decent housefrom 2022 and beyond RichlandShe previously spent 10 years as Program Director at the LEF Foundation in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and 9 years as the Founder/Programmer of The DocYard film series at the Brattle Theater. In 2019, the Boston Film Critics Association awarded her a special recognition for her “outstanding contributions to Boston’s film community.”
Among her other accomplishments, Archambault has been named a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow, and a 2020 SF DocFest Vanguard Awardee. She is an active member of her Documentary Producers Alliance and a board member of The Flaherty.
“Sarah’s deep knowledge of the documentary film space from many angles makes her the perfect person to help build the infrastructure for this new endeavor at the Shorenstein Center,” said the Center Director. rice field. Nancy Gibbsconceived and started the project.
“The documentary film industry has undergone tremendous changes in the last decade,” Archambault said in a statement. The way we procure, produce, and even watch is changing, and everyone is feeling the change in real time, thinking together about contemplating, researching, and building intentional ways.Like the Shorenstein Center It feels like the perfect moment to be in a rigorous and thoughtful place to support this work.”
Shorenstein Center
The Shorenstein Center was founded in 1986 to study the intersection of media and politics and bring working journalists to the Kennedy School. The Center has “expanded its mandate over the last decade to study the challenges, threats and opportunities in the modern information ecosystem. With this strategic focus in mind, the Shorenstein Center is now It expands its work to explore the issues facing roles in civic life at this moment of heightened engagement with film practice, industry, and form.”
In addition to directing the Shollenstein Center, Nancy Gibbs is also the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Journalism, Politics and Public Policy Practice at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is the former editor-in-chief of time magazine.
