about
Sara Suárez is a filmmaker, creative producer and artist interested in the creation of shared worlds. Her films and installations explore forms of perception, vision, and observation, unearthing layers of meaning and beauty in contested landscapes. Her work as a filmmaker has been featured by L.A. Filmforum, Slamdance, Alchemy Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, ICDOCS, and Materials & Applications, among other venues. Suárez has produced more than 100 live journalism programs at Zócalo Public Square, covering a broad range of subjects including politics, migration, labor, and arts and culture. She also works as a creative producer and editor for documentary films and other multimedia projects. She is based in Los Angeles, CA.
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Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2026 Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2026 “Stewarding Sacred Spaces,” Carolina Ocean Alliance, Charleston SC
2025 Spectral Ecologies, Plot 田, Los Angeles CA
2024 Tobacco Embers, Meztli Projects & Ave. 50 Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Atmospheric Optics, Wedge Gallery, Burbank, CA
2023 No Song Unsung, Brea Gallery, Brea, CA
2023 Day/Dream, Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Shadow Kitchen / Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Shadow Kitchen / Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
2021 Oxford University, Oxford, UK
2021 Rockaway Film Festival, Rockaway, NY
2020 Film and Video Poetry Society, New York, NY
2019 LA Filmforum / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Alchemy Film & Video Festival, Hawick, UK
2019 FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter, Berlin, DE
2019 ICDOCS (Iowa City International Documentary Festival), Iowa City, IA
2019 NOFLASH Video Show, Brunswick, NJ
2019 WUHO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 body out of time, Pieter Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, Las Cruces, NM
2019 Treefort Music Festival, Boise, ID
2019 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, UT
Grants, Fellowships, Residencies
2023 Supercollider SciArt Ambassador Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Artist in Residence, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, Milford, IA
2023 Artist in Residence, Materials & Applications, Los Angeles, CA
2021 “Digital And/As Public Space” Residency, The Bentway Conservancy, Toronto, Ontario (virtual)
2020 NAVEL ASSEMBLIES Collective Research Grant, Los Angeles, CA
2019 CalArts Postgraduate Teaching Fellowship, Valencia, CA
2018 Student Fellow, The Flaherty Documentary Seminar, Hamilton, NY
Public Presentations & Workshops
2026 “Stewarding Sacred Spaces,” Carolina Ocean Alliance, Charleston SC
2023 place settings, Los Angeles, CA
2023 “Gathering Tides: A Dreaming Workshop (II-IV)” Materials & Applications, Los Angeles CA
2022 “Gathering Tides: A Dreaming Workshop (I)” Materials & Applications, Los Angeles CA
2022 Media Economies Design Lab, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO (virtual)
2022 Interactive Architecture Lab, University College London, London, UK (virtual)
2022 Panel, “Visualizing Care: Digital Feminisms Between Archives and Networks,” Duke University, Durham, NC (virtual)
2021 Emerson College Civic Media Lab, Boston, MA (virtual)
2021 “Collective Rest Portal,” 4S Conference, University of Toronto (virtual)
2021 Panel, “Alternatives and Demands in Network Ruins,” Technoscience Research Unit, University of Toronto (virtual)
2020 Panel, “Public Programming: Simulation Symposium”, Texas Tech University College of Architecture (virtual)
2020 “Exploring Sleep and Dreams as a Collective Resource,” NAVEL, Los Angeles, CA
Press
Nathaniel Bahadursingh, “Materials & Applications hosts multi-sensory Day/Dream spatial project”, Archinect, 6/14/23
Ceci Moss, “How virtual care lab Builds Community in Online Spaces," Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 11/29/21
Kelly Rappleye, “Virtual Care Lab Creates Remote Connection,” Artillery Magazine, 3/9/21
Other Experience
2026 Associate Producer, Maids of Petroleum (documentary short)
2019-26 Senior Programming Manager, Zócalo Public Square, Los Angeles CA
2025 Sound Designer, Evidence (documentary feature)
2018 Sound Editor, Purge This Land (documentary feature)
2019-20 Film Programmer, Narrative & Experimental Shorts, Slamdance Film Festival
Teaching Experience
2018-19 Adjunct Faculty, CalArts School of Film/Video
2016-18 Teaching Associate, CalArts School of Film/Video
Education2026 Associate Producer, Maids of Petroleum (documentary short)
2019-26 Senior Programming Manager, Zócalo Public Square, Los Angeles CA
2025 Sound Designer, Evidence (documentary feature)
2018 Sound Editor, Purge This Land (documentary feature)
2019-20 Film Programmer, Narrative & Experimental Shorts, Slamdance Film Festival
Teaching Experience
2018-19 Adjunct Faculty, CalArts School of Film/Video
2016-18 Teaching Associate, CalArts School of Film/Video
2018 MFA, California Institute of the Arts
2015 BA, College of William & Mary