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ARTIST BIO

Sarah Enid Hagey is a filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. Born in the Central Valley of California, her social skills have never fully recovered from her time spent as a homeschool kid. Her primary window to the adult world was hours spent watching daytime television. Her pre-teen brain was awash with commercials for painkillers, low-rent law office jingles, and Matlock marathons. The exaggerated emotionalism and production value of this era has since informed all of her work. Her affinity for camp and no-budget filmmaking coalesced under the mentorship of George Kuchar during her undergraduate years at the San Francisco Art institute where she received a BFA. She's screened her work in bars where smoking was still allowed and also at the MoMA. She's done other stuff too, but finds it tedious and boring to talk about herself in a traditional bio way. Her own work is rooted in parody and performance, seeing melodrama as an essential expression and a beautiful way of performing for the very back of the room. 

Sarah Enid Hagey received a BFA in Film at San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA in Film at Hunter College. 

Hagey began her career as an in-house editor and production team member at Santa Fe Productions. She wrote and directed the short non-fiction film Other Voices. She was a senior editor for the CNN original web series Explore Parts Unknown, Anthony Bourdain and for non-fiction films including Blues Society, Show Me The Way, UNAFRAID, Voices from the Crime Victims Treatment Center, and Landscapes of Enchantment. She was also a sound designer for films including Elevator Pitch, UTUQAQ, Veral, Skin the Wire, Phoenix and the Dove, Assisted Living, Art House Film, and Mr. Angel. She was a producer and sound designer for The Faithful and a senior editor and sound designer for Here After, Collegetown, and Lost in the Music. She also worked on Aleph and Swarm Season. Most recently, she was the co-director, co-writer, and editor for You Were my First Boyfriend, an HBO Docs Hybrid feature film. 

Hagey is the recipient of the Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Nonfiction, James Beard Award for Visual and Technical Excellence, and the National Board of Review Student Grant.