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Sarah Beard (Australia)
Producer & Impact Producer
Artesano Productions Pty Ltd

Sarah is a multi-skilled producer with over 30 years’ experience in film and television production delivering highly successful projects to diverse national and international stakeholders including, documentary features and series, narrative features, visual effects producing, long form children’s television and IMAX.

With a key focus on making films that are both highly entertaining and have impact, especially around ocean conservation, projects include the award-winning ocean conservation film Blue and an IMAX film about the critical status of the Australian sea lion, Sea Lions — Life By A Whisker.

Sarah was recently the series producer of National Geographic/Disney+ show, Secrets of the Octopus, narrated by Paul Rudd with EP James Cameron before returning to the IMAX medium producing several films including Sea Otters 3D and Whale Tales (currently in production.) She is also currently working as the Australian Impact Producer for Ocean with David Attenborough for the Minderoo Foundation.

In addition to her film work, she has worked in the not-for-profit sector as both a board Director and CEO for Take 3 for the Sea, a marine debris initiative and held a board position for the Conflict Islands Conversation Initiative for the past five years and was the Co-Founder, CEO and Chair of The Australian Sea Lion Recovery Foundation, a charity formed after making the IMAX film Sea Lions — Life By A Whisker.