Sara Wylie (she/they) is a non-fiction filmmaker, producer and researcher from the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver, BC). Sara has directed films (A More Radiant Sphere in 2022 and The Garden Collective in 2020) and produced award-winning short documentaries (Handsome & Majestic, 2016), a feature film (Wizard Mode, 2016), as well as story-produced several documentary series for VICELAND, Telus Optik and the Travel Channel. Sara graduated with distinction from Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University’s Documentary Media MFA Program in 2019, and is the recipient of grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council and SSHRC. Sara's films have screened at Vancouver International Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, RIDM Documentary Festival, the Canadian Labour International Film Festival, South Western International Film Festival, Tacoma Film Festival, Workers Unite Film Festival and more.
_A More Radiant Sphere_ tells the long-lost story of Communist poet, activist and Canadian political prisoner Joe Wallace, bringing him to life through archival material, both real and imagined. This hybrid film is shot primarily on 16 mm film and weaves together the story of Wallace, the failed Canadian Communist Party, and the filmmaker’s own surprising discovery of her relation to Wallace th...
_A More Radiant Sphere_ tells the long-lost story of Communist poet, activist and Canadian political prisoner Joe Wallace, bringing him to life through archival material, both real and imagined. This hybrid film is shot primarily on 16 mm film and weaves together the story of Wallace, the failed Canadian Communist Party, and the filmmaker’s own surprising discovery of her relation to Wallace th...