Sara Colangelo is an American film director and screenwriter known for her films ''

Little Accidents ''Little Accidents'' is a 2014 American drama film directed and written by Sara Colangelo, based on her own 2010 award-winning short film of same name. The film stars Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook, Chloë Sevigny, Jacob Lofland, and Josh Lucas. ...

'' and '' Worth''. ''

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'' named her one of its "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2010. Colangelo graduated from

Phillips Exeter Academy Phillips Exeter Academy (often called Exeter or PEA) is an Independent school, independent, co-educational, college-preparatory school in Exeter, New Hampshire. Established in 1781, it is America's sixth-oldest boarding school and educates an es ...

in 1997 and

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with a Bachelor of Arts in History in 2001. She received her MFA at New York University's

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. Her NYU thesis project, a short film called ''Little Accidents'', premiered at the 2010

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. It won the Grand Jury Prizes for Narrative Short from the

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. A full length somewhat different version of the film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014 and received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. Colangelo was invited to Sundance Labs' Writing Lab and later to their Directing Lab. Colangelo's remake of an Israeli film, '' The Kindergarten Teacher'', won a directing award in Sundance's dramatic film category and was picked up by

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in 2018. Her film '' Worth'', written by

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, was called "a provocative moral thriller" and explored the nuances of determining the value of a lost life for the 911 victims fund.

Personal life

Colangelo grew up in

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. She married Chris Trujillo on November 5, 2016. The couple live in Brooklyn.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Colangelo, Sara Living people 21st-century American screenwriters 21st-century American women writers American women film directors American women screenwriters Brown University alumni Film directors from Massachusetts People from Leominster, Massachusetts Phillips Exeter Academy alumni Screenwriters from Massachusetts Tisch School of the Arts alumni Sundance Film Festival award winners Year of birth missing (living people)