Sarah Johnson

Head of Jury

CO-CEO AND FOUNDER, GREEN HUMMINGBIRD ENTERTAINMENT Johnson is a two-time Emmy and Peabody award winning independent film producer, she is an executive producer on several notable recent films including Alejandro G. Inarritu’s Birdman, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2015; James Gray’s period drama, The Immigrant; Guillaume Canet’s crime thriller Blood Ties; Atom Egoyan’s crime thriller Devil’s Knot; David Gordon Green’s drama Joe; and Eli Roth’s horror thriller The Green Inferno. Her documentaries on social issues include the Academy Award nominated The Square, Chasing Ice and The Invisible War, as well as the critically acclaimed The Hunting Ground and Living In Emergency: Stories Of Doctors Without Borders. Johnson is an activist for environmental, educational, and gender issues. She is a member of the Television Academy and an active member of the Producers Guild of America. A former Portfolio Manager at Franklin Templeton, she is active on the boards of St. Lawrence University, Conservation South Africa, and Chairs the board at Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University. She holds a B.S. in Biology from St. Lawrence University.

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