
Producer Sarah Green is currently producing The Tree of Life, written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn.
Most recently, she produced Terrence Malick’s epic adventure The New World inspired by the legend of John Smith and Pocahontas. Green also served as producer on Frida, which was nominated for six Academy Awards (winning two), five British Academy of Film & Television Arts (BAFTA) Awards (winning one), two Golden Globes (winning one), all including Best Actress for Salma Hayek, who along with fellow star Alfred Molina and director Julie Taymor were honored by numerous international organizations and festivals.
In 2004, Green produced Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, set in Cuba and filmed in Puerto Rico against a vibrant backdrop of salsa music and dance.
Green produced Girlfight and State and Main, two of 2002’s most acclaimed independent features. Girlfight shared the Grand Jury Prize and won Best Director for Karyn Kusama at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as Best Picture and Best Actress (for Michelle Rodriguez) at the Deauville Film Festival, the Prix de la Jeunesse at the Cannes Film Festival and the Open Palm at the IFP Gotham Awards. In addition to the above, Rodriguez was honored by the National Board of Review, the Independent Spirit Awards, the Las Vegas Film Critics Society and the Online Film Critics Society. State and Main (2001) won cast awards from The Casting Society of America, the National Board of Review, the Florida Film Critics Circle and the Online Film Critics Society, as well as four screenplay nominations for writer/director David Mamet and Best Picture at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival.
Previously, Green produced Mamet’s The Winslow Boy, and co-produced Mamet’s contemporary thriller The Spanish Prisoner starring Cambell Scott and Steve Martin (nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay) and American Buffalo, based on Mamet’s play and directed by Michael Corrente, with Dustin Hoffman in the lead. Green also produced Oleanna with Patricia Wolff, which Mamet wrote and directed, and for which actor William H. Macy was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Green produced three films for writer/director John Sayles, all with Maggie Renzi: The Secret of Roan Inish, nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards; Passion Fish, nominated for two Academy Awards as well as two Golden Globes and two Independent Spirit Awards (winning one); and City of Hope, which won the Grand Prix at the Tokyo Film Festival and the Critics’ Award at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, as well as an Independent Spirit Award for actor David Strathairn. She also produced the Emmy Award-winning American Playhouse production of Andre’s Mother, written by Terrence McNally, which was named Best Televison Movie of 1990 by the National Board of Review.
Green is on the National Board of Directors of the Producers Guild of America, as well as a member of the PGA Producers Council Board of Delegates and Co-Chair of the PGA Independent Film Producers Committee. She is also a board member of Wellspring House, a community designed to participate in social change through the provision of shelter, affordable housing, local economic opportunity and education rooted in community needs.
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