Sarah Hesterman is an award-winning producer of commercials, branded content, digital, marketing, event, training and promotional video content and documentaries. From 2017-2021, Sarah was Executive Producer of Production and Post at production company, Homestead, and she has over 15 years of experience producing for agencies like JWT, BBDO and Hogarth Worldwide, production and post-houses and direct-to-client for many foundations and NGOs. Sarah has produced work for clients and brands including Lenovo, GSK, Revlon, Nestlé, Barnes & Noble, Microsoft, American Express, Rolex, Estee Lauder, Johnson & Johnson, Orbitz and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. She grew up in East Lansing, Michigan and is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Film & Television.
Sarah is also a documentary filmmaker and founder of Phase 4: Media with a Mission, a company specializing in content production for foundations, non-profits and social issues and its food-focused offshoot, Render & Rise: A Content Studio for the Good Food World. Over the course of ten years she has partnered with national non-profit, Fair Food Network, to develop and produce numerous awareness campaigns to promote their programs and mission of increasing community health and wealth through food. Sarah is also the founder of Lyrical Films, LLC and Producer/Director of the independent feature length documentary Unsigned…, a work-in-progress that is 10+ years in the making.