Sabrina Schmidt Gordon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and impact strategist from New York City. Her editing debut won an Emmy, and she has continued to distinguish herself as a producer, editor, and director. Sabrina was selected for the prestigious Women at Sundance Fellowship in 2017, and in June 2018 was inducted into The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
She is the producer of Quest, a New York Times Critic’s Pick which premiered at Sundance and was nominated for numerous awards including two Emmys, a Peabody and two Independent Spirit Awards. Vogue interviewed Sabrina to discuss the making of the film in “A Documentary Disrupts American Narratives About Race.” Sabrina’s directorial debut was the Emmy-nominated BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, which she co-directed, co-produced, and edited, and which won Best Film Directed by a Woman of Color at the African Diaspora International Film Festival. She is the co-producer and editor of Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, which also premiered at Sundance, and Documented, the story of Pulitzer Prize-winning undocumented journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas. Documented had record-breaking viewership on CNN and was nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary.
Sabrina produces, directs and edits content for many journalism platforms, including The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, and FRONTLINE. She is co-chair of the Black Documentary Collective and a founding member of Beyond Inclusion.
