Sarah Demeestere

Sarah Demeestere is an award-winning producer from Paris and now based in Los Angeles. She began her career working in commercials and voice over, representing brands such as Kodak, Seiko, and Gaylord Hauser. After many years as a model, she pursued acting and began studying at the prestigious Cours Florent in Paris and then with Howard Fine in Los Angeles where she remained for several years. She lived between LA and Paris obtaining a Masters Degree in Film from the Sorbonne University and continued studying acting with Helene Zidi and Jordan Beswick. Within time on film sets (Terry Gilliam's Brothers Grimm, Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist) and television sets as an actor (Without A Trace, The Unit, Star Trek: Picard), she naturally gravitated towards the producing side of the film industry working in production and development. Since she started in Hollywood with directorial success producing and directing short French films Sarah was already being sought-after to develop and produce feature films. Since 2014 Sarah has been developing and adapting the works of writers Jérôme-Arnaud Wagner, Elizabeth Hunter and Inelia Benz. Sarah's producing credits include dramedy DuElle, co-produced with Oscar-winner Alain Sarde; comedy film Show All, which screened in Cannes then picked up immediate distribution; Osmosis, and The Ghost Story, directed by Melissa Bruning. Highlights from her career as a producer-director-actor include festival awards (SFSFF, NYLA Int'l Film Festival) and screenings at the Cannes Film Festival and the Clarity Theater in Beverly Hills, CA. Sarah is also engaged in empowering youth to master the skill of filmmaking and teaches drama and filmmaking to elementary students. She has produced and directed a series of short films with young students from French immersion school LILA.