About

Sarah Garrahan (she/her) is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles. She co-produced the hybrid feature documentary The Infiltrators (Sundance 2019). She edited the feature documentaries The Haunting of Pennhurst (Tribeca 2026), Building the American Dream (SXSW 2019), Silent Beauty (Hot Docs 2022), Slumlord Millionaire (DOCNYC 2024) and the short documentaries Status Pending (Al Jazeera), La Isla (The New Yorker) and Love in the Time of Migration (LA Times Short Docs). She is a former Flaherty Fellow, Felsman Fellow, Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellow, DOCNYC 40 Under 40 honoree, and was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. In 2026, she received the Creative Capital award for her feature documentary in development.

She has served as an editing consultant for the Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, the IDA, and on numerous feature and short films. She holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University.

Sarah works in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

For inquiries, contact me directly at sarahgarrahan at gmail.com.