Sara Zavarise is an editor and social documentary filmmaker.
She made documentaries for different companies (Synergia srl, The Family Srl, Alberto Osella & Co srl), no profit organizations (Acra, Amref, ICS - Consorzio Italiano Solidarietà, Fondazione Fretelli Dimenticati, Fondazione de André) and independent production companies (ZaLab, Festival dei Popoli, Filmmaker).
She worked as editor for the documentary “La malombra” By Andrea Segre and Francesco Cressati, produced by Jolefilm (doc, 2007, in competition at Torino Film Fest), and for a Jolefilm project on the TV channel LA7 including “Chi ga vinto?, a Marco Paolini’s journey inside rugby” (doc, 52 min) and “The rules of rugby” (15 videos of 3 mins each).
She is member of the ZaLab that organizes workshops of participatory videos in Europe and in developing countries.
Her works include “Maji - Water” (Italia-Kenya 2004, winner of the Unicef prize and menzione speciale della giuria at Mestre Film Festival 2005), “John” (Italia 2004, episode from the film Cluster), “Under the same roof” (Italia-Palestina 2005, winner at the CortoConcorso Massimo Troisi 2006), “Little hands” (Italia-India, 2006), “Solchi - the pain of memory” (Italia-Palestina 2006), “Celeste” (Italia 2006, winner at Luoghi del Femminile, section of the Filmmaker ’06 festival), “Carmine” (Italia 2007).
At present she is making a documentary about microcredit in Africa, Asia and South America in cooperation with the NGO Acra.
