SASCHA ETTINGER EPSTEIN

Co-Director/Producer | Cinematographer | Editor

Sascha Ettinger Epstein is a documentary filmmaker and magazine feature writer with a taste for edgy stories. Her first documentary Painting with Light in a Dark World about eccentric visionary Kings Cross street photographer, Peter Darren Moyle, won many awards including best short documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival 2003, the AFI for best Direction in a Documentary, an IF Award, an ATOM Award and was a finalist in the 2003 Dendy Awards. She completed a Masters in Documentary Direction at AFTRS where she made IF Award winning Sentences, about an art program within Long Bay Gaol and Change of Heart about the mystique of human heart transplantation which won an ATOM Award and was also a finalist in the Sydney Film Festival Dendy Awards 2005.  In early 2008, she completed a feature length documentary, The Oasis, about Sydney's homeless youth which screened on the ABC to critical acclaim.