Sarah Lasley is a Guggenheim Fellow and award-winning filmmaker from Louisville, Kentucky. She was recently listed as one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her no-budget films critique techno-utopianism with absurdist humor. She has screened internationally at Oscar and BAFTA-qualifying festivals such as Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Big Sky, Athens International Film and Video Festival, deadCenter, Florida Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and 25 FPS Festival.
Her films have been reviewed on RogerEbert.com, Film Threat, No Film School, and The Washington Post, and her short Welcome to the Enclave won the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Award at the Chicago Critics Film Festival and was picked up for distribution on NoBudge and the Slamdance Channel. She has an MFA from Yale School of Art and was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Sarah currently lives in Eureka, California where she is an Associate Professor of Film at Cal Poly Humboldt.