Biography

Sarah Joy Byington is an award-winning writer and director and co-founder of Better Half Pictures. She wrote and directed the short film Labor and Justice, which screened at HollyShorts 2023 and DIFF Shorts 2024, earning multiple awards including Best Director at the Austin Spotlight Film Festival 2024. She also directed the short film Somewhere you Feel Free, which won Best Film at Austin's Women In Film & Television, as well as, the Trailblazer Award at Austin Under the Stars festival. Her most recent short Deserteur premiered at the 2025 Austin Film Festival. Her work has also been recognized by Not Your Daddy’s Films, which named her one of 2025’s Directors To Watch.
- IMDb mini biography by: Better Half Pictures