Sarah Keo
she/they
Sarah Keo
Asian-American
Affiliations
A-Doc, BGDMLinks to Work
www.chasingtime.com
www.exposurelabs.com
Bio
Sarah Keo is a Cambodian-American director and producer from Seattle, WA. After a childhood spent patiently waiting for her wizarding school letter to arrive and searching for magical worlds within wardrobes, Sarah realized that her passion was in storytelling. It wasn't until she worked in artist support programs at the Sundance Institute, however, that she truly discovered the power that filmmaking holds to evoke empathy and compassion. Now, Sarah is inspired to tell diverse, human-centered stories that shift the cultural narrative and help shine a light on a better path forward for ourselves and our planet. Her current project Chasing Time, a short climate film that she co-directed with Emmy-winning filmmaker Jeff Orlowski-Yang, premiered at Hot Docs.
Currently, Sarah is an Associate Producer at Exposure Labs, the film and impact production company behind The Social Dilemma, Chasing Coral, and Chasing Ice. In her role, she supports the team's mission of developing and sharing stories that address big societal challenges and that inspire hope and action for collective solutions.
Sarah currently resides in Denver, CO and is a 2024 Cine Fe Fellow.
Projects
Chasing Time
If a single photo can inspire change, how influential are a million images? Over the course of the 15-year Extreme Ice Survey project, photographer James Balog and his team brought some of the world’s first and most compelling visual evidence of climate change to the global stage as he depicted the rapid melting of glaciers around the world. Thoughtfully helmed by acclaimed director Jeff Orlowski-Yang (Chasing Ice, Chasing Coral, The Social Dilemma) and first-time filmmaker Sarah Keo, Chasing Time is a meditative exploration of time and mortality, following James and his crew as they bring the decades-long project to a close, cataloging more than one million images in the process. The short documentary reunites James and the Emmy-winning team behind Chasing Ice to capture the end of the epic undertaking and spotlight the power of an intergenerational effort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future.
