Sally Rubin is a documentary filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles, and a full time professor at Chapman University. She has worked in documentary film for over 15 years. Rubin recently completed Deep Down (co-directed by Jen Gilomen), an ITVS-funded feature-length documentary about two friends in eastern Kentucky who find themselves divided over mountaintop removal coal mining near their homes.

Rubin's editing credits include Robert Greenwald's Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers (Greenwald also made The Walmart Movie and Outfoxed) and The Freedom Files, a 9-part series for the ACLU produced by Robert Greenwald and Brave New Films, in which she cut episodes focused on gay marriage, immigrant rights, and juvenile rights. In 2008 she co-produced and edited the feature-length documentary Without a Home, about homelessness in Los Angeles. She also worked on Beer Wars, and a piece that screened at the 2007 SAG Awards. Previous to that she completed the hour-long nature film, Riverwebs, and the 45-minute Tombees du Ciel, about a French Holocaust survivor.

After earning her M.A. in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University, Rubin worked as Associate Producer on Janet Cole and Jamie Stobie's Freedom Machines, in addition to editing work with Ken Schneider on the ITVS-funded Granny D Goes to Washington and other shows. She also worked as Assistant Editor on Ellen Perry's Sundance favorite, The Fall of Fujimori.

Her credits also include work on WGBH's Africans in America (1998), and David Sutherland's award-winning Farmer's Wife (1998).  She also Associate Produced Sutherland's 6-hour Frontline special Country Boys (2006).

In 2004 Rubin founded groundbreaking "Straight Outta Grrrlville" Film Festival in San Francisco, and continues to produce local events and benefits for artists and filmmakers.

To contact Sally Rubin:

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