About
Sarah Nocquet is a French-American screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Paris, she moved to New York to pursue a degree in film & TV production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has since expanded her domain of work to include Paris, New York, and London. Her short psychological thriller Speed Queen 51 starring Rory Culkin premiered at Palm Springs Shortfest 2024, and her 5min drama Decoy starring Lia Williams is planning a festival run in 2025. Her short horror Open won her the Best Directing award at NFFTY 2019, and her sci-fi thriller feature Second Nature was a finalist in the 2023 Stowe Story Labs. Since 2021, Sarah runs an annual writers retreat during which all participants write the first draft of a feature film in two weeks. Outside of writing and directing her own projects, she can be found working as a writer for hire, music video director, assistant director, and script supervisor. She has written feature biopics for NYC-based Intrinsic Value Films and Paris-based Kaiwo Studio, and has worked as story writer and script consultant on a variety of other projects. Sarah enjoys examining the inner life of female protagonists and toying with absurdism and irony in thrillers.
Over the years, Sarah has held a variety of jobs in the film and television industry. She was a producer’s assistant for EMJAG Productions (The Wolf of Wall Street, Tár, Black Bird). She spent three summers teaching teenagers the basics of filmmaking at NYU’s Summer Filmmakers Workshop, and worked for three years at NYU’s film archive as a projectionist and archivist. During her college years, she completed internships at a few production companies, including Sesame Street. She has also been a production assistant on a multitude of projects, from commercials to shorts to features.