Sarah Barton
Festival judge
Sarah Barton is a 2010 Churchill Fellow with 30 years of filmmaking experience, mainly with the disability community. Her first film, Untold Desires (1994), about sexuality and disability, won the first Logie Award for SBS television and an AFI Award.
In 2003, Sarah created and produced 70 episodes of the award-winning disability community television series No Limits. In 2017, Sarah’s feature documentary Defiant Lives, about the disability rights movement, premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and also screened at the United Nations in New York.
Sarah runs a video-on-demand service dedicated to streaming great films about disability. In 2024, Sarah was the key support person for her daughter Stella, who competed in the Paris Paralympics in para-dressage.
In 2003, Sarah created and produced 70 episodes of the award-winning disability community television series No Limits. In 2017, Sarah’s feature documentary Defiant Lives, about the disability rights movement, premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and also screened at the United Nations in New York.
Sarah runs a video-on-demand service dedicated to streaming great films about disability. In 2024, Sarah was the key support person for her daughter Stella, who competed in the Paris Paralympics in para-dressage.