Thanks for your interest in my work! I am not currently taking assignments at this time as I focus on my film work.
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Sabrina Sellers is a creative problem solver who has a passion for supporting filmmakers. She believes in the power of film as an effective storytelling tool that helps people understand themselves and each other. Her skills are varied under the realms of production management and artist development.
Sabrina is currently a production coordinator at Pixar Animation Studios working as the animation coordinator for the upcoming feature film, Elio (2025). She got her start as the artist development coordinator at SFFILM where she supported narrative and documentary filmmakers in both grants and residencies. Most notably, she helped support through the program films like, Against The Tide (2023), Earth Mama (2023), and The Strike (2024).
She believes that film should be accessible to everyone and is part of a filmmaker team that helped jump start a workshop series for Forward This Productions, a production studio housed in the media lab at San Quentin State Prison.
Outside of Pixar, Sabrina freelances as a creative producer for short form content. She has an interest in supporting filmmakers of color who make character-driven films around the following topics: romantic relationships, coming of age/youth culture, family, and identity. She also has an interest in stories around labor and the prison industrial complex. She continues to review applications for SFFILM's artist development team and supports filmmakers in grant-writing.
Sabrina is also an accomplished, self-taught, documentary and editorial photographer. In her work she highlights underrepresented folks in art, culture, and sports. She has had her work featured with Nike Skateboarding, i-D, and the San Francisco Chronicle, to name a few, and works collaboratively with the Black Joy Parade and, the non-profit, Skate Like A Girl. She is currently working on a portrait series called, all my friends.
Experience:
Production Coordinator, Pixar Animation Studios, Elio [Jan 2023- Present] *Animation/Lighting/ Crowds/ Simulation coordinator*
Producer, Upcoming Narrative, Live-Action Short Film [Nov 2023- Present]
Co-Producer, Upcoming Animated Short Film [March 2023- Present]
Artist Development Coordinator, SFFILM [Sep 2021- Dec 2022] *supporting both doc and narrative filmmakers*
Project Manager, Cinemama, formerly the Oakland Film Center [Jun 2021- Sep 2021]
Volunteer Work:
Project Manager, Forward This Productions at San Quentin State Prison
Jury Member, San Francisco Dance Film Festival
Grant Reader, SFFILM's Documentary Film Fund
Photo Clients:
Nike Skateboarding, SF Chronicle, Food & Wine, Thrasher Magazine, Skate Like A Girl, Runner's World, i-D, CurbedSF, Duncan Channon, California Health Care Foundation
Skills:
production schedules, production budgets, fundraising, creative producing, artist management and support, crew recruitment, 3D animation pipeline, grant reading and writing