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Sarah Colt
Affiliation during program: Freelance Video
Country Focus: Namibia

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Sarah Colt is a freelance documentary television producer living in New York City. In 2004, Colt produced a documentary for the PBS television series FRONTLINE/World that examines the emotional impact of Namibia�s struggle over land redistribution fourteen years after independence. Initial filming for the program was funded as part of a IRP Fellowship in International Journalism. From 1997 to December 2003 Sarah Colt worked as Senior Producer at David Grubin Productions producing programs for American Public Television. In addition to producing �Kofi Annan: Center of the Storm�, a ninety minute profile of the secretary general of the United Nations that aired on PBS in January, 2003 her other credits include, �RFK� a two hour biography of the late senator that aired on PBS in October, 2004, �Young Dr. Freud�, a two hour biography of Freud�s early life aired on PBS in 2002 and �The Secret Life of the Brain�, an Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Science, Nature and Technology Programming that aired on PBS in 2000. Prior to working with David Grubin, Colt worked at Guggenheim Productions and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Focusing on documentary still photography, Colt earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1992.

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