Grantee

Corinna Sager

Producer

Corinna Sager [Producer] is an international, award-winning director/producer. She produced Katja Esson’s Academy Award nominated short documentary “Ferry Tales”, which was broadcast on HBO and ARTE, and “Poetry of Resilience”, which received support from the National Foundation for the Arts and was nominated for the Cinema for Peace Award at the Berlinale. Corinna founded and led “Stories from the Field”, the United Nations Documentary Film Festival focused on the Millennium Development Goals in partnership with the UN Department of Public Information and The New School. Since 2010 Corinna has also taught and developed courses at Pace University’s Digital Media and Communications Master’s Program. Most recently she created “Let’s Be Frank”, a discussion series focused on the challenges of America’s ‘melting pot’, which she is currently developing to become a regular series.