Sarah Hanssen

filmmaker - writer - educator 

                                                                                  









Sarah Hanssen is a filmmaker, writer and educator. She received her MFA at the Massachusetts College of Art. Her films have shown at festivals and screenings around the world. She is a professor at the City University of New York and has published in numerous academic journals. She’s also a mother of three amazing children. (more).


Work-In-Progress - Two Things Are True - a film, memoir, and art project (more).


Read Sarah’s piece Painting Over My Painful Past - The New York Times | Modern Love.

And her latest in the online magazine Jenny, For Sexual Abuse Survivors, Even the Doctor Can Feel Unsafe.







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