Producer Sara Archambault Joins Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, Heading New Initiative On “Documentary Film In The Public Interest”

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EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning documentary producer and film programmer Sara Archambault is joining the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

As the newly-named Documentary Film Project Manager, Archambault will oversee a new initiative on documentary film in the public interest. “The initiative will engage with scholars, filmmakers, journalists, and industry leaders around the major questions facing the documentary film industry today,” according to a release announcing Archambault’s appointment, “and will include activities such as fellowships, screenings, convenings, and new prizes.” Archambault’s most recent producing credits include Riotsville, U.S.A.

and A Decent Home, both from 2022, as well as the upcoming Richland. She previously spent a decade as the program director of the LEF Foundation in Cambridge, Mass., and nine years as founder/programmer of the Brattle Theatre’s The DocYard film series.

In 2019, the Boston Society of Film Critics awarded her a special commendation for her “tremendous contributions to Boston’s film community.” Among her other accomplishments, Archambault is a 2020 Impact Partners Producing Fellow, a 2013 Sundance Creative Producers Lab Fellow and was named the 2020 SF DocFest Vanguard Awardee.