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Sara Colangelo is an American film director and screenwriter known for her films Little Accidents and Worth. Filmmaker Magazine named her one of its "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2010. Colangelo graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1997 and Brown University with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2001.
Sara Colangelo. Director: The Kindergarten Teacher. Sara Colangelo is an award-winning writer and director. Her first film, the short documentary Halal Vivero, was a National Finalist at the 2006 Student Academy Awards, and her narrative short, Un Attimo di Respiro, screened at over fifteen national and international film festivals including Tribeca and SXSW.
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Feb 27, 2019 · Her latest role, in Sara Colangelo’s taut psychodrama The Kindergarten Teacher, is certainly in keeping with that trend. The second feature from the American writer-director, based on a 2014 Israeli movie, it follows Lisa, a seemingly perfect preschool teacher searching for fulfilment along morally blurred lines when she goes too far nurturing a gifted child.
Oct 19, 2018 · Written and directed by Sara Colangelo, who adapted the script from the same-named 2014 Israeli title, the film opens with Lisa preparing the classroom for another day of storytelling, letter learning, finger painting and nap-taking. But when she overhears five-year-old Jimmy Roy (newcomer Parker Sevak) reciting an improvised poem, she’s ...
Jan 30, 2018 · For her second feature at Sundance (after her highly praised 2014 debut Little Accidents), writer/director Sara Colangelo has chosen to remake a four-year-old Israeli drama to examine the dying ...
Sep 5, 2021 · SARA COLANGELO: Thank you. MARTIN: So, you know, complex tort litigation is not the usual subject for a legal thriller. I mean, you usually think of things like conspiracies or cover-ups or murder ...
Feb 25, 2024 · I spoke with director Sara Colangelo (Little Accidents) on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, after my return from the Toronto International Film Festival (but while she was still there) to discuss her Sundance award-winner, The Kindergarten Teacher (which I also reviewed). The film is an adaptation of
