Sarah Abbott

Sarah Abbott is a Canadian filmmaker and artist whose work engages experience of being, memory, the body, sexuality, human rights and the environment. She works in a variety of genres and mediums, with an aim to push boundaries of expression and stimulate viewer involvement. Her film and video work has received numerous grants, awards and international festival selections. She holds a BA, Hon. in Film Studies and Drama from Queen’s University and earned her MFA in Art Video from Syracuse University on a three-year fellowship. Between degrees, Sarah taught English in Kyoto, Japan, tended sheep in southern France, was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts, interned at The Human Rights Media Centre in Cape Town, South Africa, and freelanced in various capacities in Toronto’s film and video community. She has also been an artist-in-residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon. Sarah currently teaches as an Assistant Professor in The Department of Media Production and Studies at The University of Regina. She is the founding member of mispon: A Celebration of Indigenous Filmmaking, Regina’s new non-profit film festival and advocacy collective. Sarah Abbott also has work distributed by Vtape (www.vtape.org) and Moving Images Distribution (www.movingimages.ca). Website: www.sarahabbott.ca