Sarah Jacobson

Co-Editor

2020 Sundance Film Festival - U.S. Documentary Competition

After a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School claims 17 lives, a number of students rally themselves around the tragedy as an opportunity to speak out against the national gun-violence epidemic. As their adrenaline propels a dive into full-on activism, their movement catalyzes, and students impacted by gun violence nationwide join in, giving voice to a generation of traumatized but determined youth.

https://uskidsfilm.com

Editor

Embodied explores how body size shapes opportunities and relationships through the eyes of a drag queen, scuba diver, midwife, mermaid, and a CEO

2023

Associate Editor

2021 Sundance Film Festival - U.S. Documentary Competition

Three teenage girls in Texas confront the dark corners of adolescence at the end of summer.

Directed by Isabel Bethencourt and Parker Hil

Feature, 2026

Editor

In a run-down East Texas boxing gym, best friends Maya and Norely aren’t just learning to fight — they’re learning how to move forward.

Director, Editor, Co-Producer

Beneath the surface of New York City lies the Jewel Streets—a forgotten neighborhood drowning in toxic water. After decades of empty promises from city leaders, its residents rise with local activists to reclaim their streets, their health, and their right to exist beyond the city’s indifference.

Editor

A short history of the conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, directed by Andrew Myers

5 min

Music video directed by Double Solitaire

Editor

Co-Director, Co-Editor & Co-Producer

World Premiere: Visions du Reel, 2017

US Premiere: BAMcinemaFest, 2017

Choreographer and activist Adia Whitaker has young children to protect. Too many sons and daughters from her community have been harmed by police brutality. Frustrated by how fleeting both media coverage and public attention to police injustice can be, Adia creates a performance piece designed to engage people in a new way, using her lyrics to teach children how to stay safe during encounters with police. Rehearsals are no longer just about preparing work for the stage; they are a call to action, a form of resistance and a way to connect with the community while passing lessons of strength on to Adia’s children.

Documentary short [2017] 

Ziemba - Lips 2 Lips

Editor

Music Video [2019]

Editor

Girls Who Code presents “SISTERHOOD: ASMR Activism.” Critically-acclaimed comedians use ASMR (autonomous sensory meridian response) to give tutorials on becoming a community organizer.

Comedians featured include Aparna Nancherla - named one of Rolling Stone’s Top 50 Funniest People Right Now; Saturday Night Live alum Sasheer Zamata; The Big Sick’s Mitra Jouhari; and Bad Teacher’s Caitlin Kimball.

2018

Editor

Through interviews and observational footage Work Songs explores how various workers find meaning in their jobs. The gig economy, automatisation and the decreasing power of unions are explored in planned and spontaneous interviews, leavened by finely observed evocations of work places.

Directed by Mark Street

Feature documentary [2019]

Editor

This radically intimate work follows Elise and Marc during the first six weeks of parenthood. Focusing on the new mother, it shares her profound identity shift and the significant physical, hormonal and psychological changes she faces after giving birth.

2022

Additional Editor

From the team behind the Academy Award-shortlisted, Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa, Hollywood Does Abortion reveals how, from the 1970s to the present, film and television have too often relied on dangerously misleading distortions about abortions and the people who seek them.

In Post Production

Editor

A brutal break up precipitates an unexpected meeting and two sisters are forced to confront their long standing tension. 

Won 1st Place for Narrative Feature at Women's Independent Film Festival

Narrative feature [2016]

Associate Producer

Tribeca Film Festival, 2014

Emmy Award, 2014

WE COULD BE KING follows the true story of two rival Philadelphia high schools - Martin Luther King High School and Germantown High - forced to merge due to budget cuts.

Director, Producer & Editor

 As another hot NYC summer approaches, two adult strangers help each other confront their summertime fears.

In Post Production

Producer

[2015]