Clare Sawyer

Clare Sawyer is a producer and film festival curator. As a producer, she has made six films, including Recorder Queen which screened at Hot Dox 2021 and on ABC in Australia. She also produced the ABC TV short feature The Forest which screened at Telluride Film Festival. Clare previously curated the Family Program for Sydney Film Festival and was the Head of Children’s and Young Adults Programs at Sydney Writers Festival. She produced the award winning short films Vitalogy, Lost, Helga and The Tale of the Paper Hearts. Clare has programmed films for Flickerfest International Film Festival, Dungog and Cockatoo Island Film Festivals, as well as worked with the Youth Jury at Berlinale. For four years Clare was the Producer and General Manager of the IF Awards.