Sara Freeman

Sara Freeman discovered cinema when she was seven years old and watched Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas for the first time. From that point on, Sara devoted her life to the art of film and proceeded to amaze everyone in her hometown of Glendale, OR with her geeky prowess. She even managed to finagle her high school teachers into letting her teach a film history class for an entire school year. Upon graduation in 2004, Sara moved to Chicago, IL to pursue film studies at Columbia College.  

Between 2004 and 2008, Sara earned many awards for her academic achievements, discovered her feminist roots, and began writing about film from a feminist perspective. She graduated with high honors from Columbia College last year and was recently accepted into DePaul University’s Women and Gender Studies graduate program.

In 2008, she presented one of her papers (Max Ophuls’ Diary of the Dead: The Haunting Romanticism of Letter from an Unknown Woman) at the 2^nd annual Midwest Undergraduate Film Studies Conference at the University of Notre Dame. She is fairly new to the professional publishing arena, but she has already written for Bitch magazine, Sadie magazine, In Review Online, and The Feminist Review. She is currently a member of the Editorial Collective for The Feminist Review, a staff writer for In Review Online, and also maintains a feminist film project on contemporary film at The Women Within. In addition to writing, Sara has also guest lectured on films at Columbia College.

Sara and her partner, Jake, still live in Chicago along with their miniature dachshund, Libby. When not writing or watching films, Sara can be found sleeping in her bedroom. She hopes to write several books in her lifetime and wants to publish the first one before she turns thirty. Sara is obsessed with the classic women’s picture and gains much inspiration from the likes of Bette Davis, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara Stanwyck and the films of Roman Polanski, Vincente Minnelli, and Dorothy Arzner.

Please feel free to contact her if you have any questions, comments, or job offers. Thank you!