About

Sarah Holm Johansen is a Danish-born award-winning documentary filmmaker with 15 years of experience directing and producing long form content for platforms such as CNN, Showtime, History Channel, Discovery ID, A&E and Netflix.

Sarah started her career as an intern at the prestigious news show 60 Minutes on CBS, and spent the next years traveling the country and covering politics as a US correspondent for the Danish network Danish Broadcasting Corporation. Following the 2008 election, she wrote two books, both collections of essays about New York City and it’s colorful residents.

She then established herself as a Writer, Director & Producer, working at New York’s top production companies. Her work has taken her all over the world, most recently to China, where she covered the rise of the counterfeit industry; Indonesia, where she explored deforestation and government corruption, the Arctic, where she investigated the catastrophic impact of climate change on the Arctic ice; and Beirut, for a limited documentary series about religious conservatism and the changing role of women in Lebanese society.

She has worked with and directed several high-profile journalists and actors, such as CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and W. Kamau Bell, 60 Minutes anchor Leslie Stahl, and actors Harrison Ford and Arnold Schwarzenegger.  Most recently Sarah has directed two episodes of the critically acclaimed series “Trafficked With Mariana van Zeller”.