Sari Gilman is an award winning documentary director, producer, writer and editor with 25 years of experience. Her directorial debut, Kings Point (HBO), was nominated for an Oscar and screened at film festivals worldwide. She co-directed and edited Saving Capitalism (Netflix), about the economist Robert Reich, and worked with filmmaker Dawn Porter as co-writer and editor on Trapped (Sundance, PBS), and as producer and editor on Voting Matters (PBS). She received a Primetime Emmy nomination for her editing work on Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (Sundance, HBO), directed by Rory Kennedy. The first feature she edited was Judith Helfand’s Blue Vinyl (Sundance, HBO).
Sari was a filmmaker in residence at the San Francisco Jewish Film Institute and a fellow with LABA, a laboratory of Jewish culture which uses classic Jewish texts to inspire the creation of art, conversation, and community.
After many years of experiencing an east/west tug, Sari has made her home in San Francisco.
