Sarah Shepard
IMDB Pro: https://pro-labs.imdb.com/name/nm2416896/
Filmography: Present (Short) – Producer 2006
Most likely her Twitter: https://twitter.com/sarahsheps12 @sarahsheps12 (Looks like she doesn’t really use it.)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/sarah-shepard/24/145/38b
Experience
SVP, Television at Smokehouse Pictures
– Present (1 month)
Vice President, Development and Production of Wayfare Entertainment Ventures, LLC
February 2011 – (3 years 6 months)
Development/Production Executive of WAM Films
2008 – 2011 (3 years)
Development Executive of Appian Way
2005 – 2008 (3 years)
Assistant at Industry Entertainment
2004 – 2005 (1 year)
Assistant at International Creative Management (ICM)
2003 – 2004 (1 year)
Education
Wesleyan University (Film)
1999 – 2003
University of Southern California (Film)
2001 – 2002
Trinity School
1996 – 1999
In the Media:
6/6/2014 Dreadcentral.com
The script is by Stacy Chbosky and John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle (Quarantine, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, The Coup). Revolver is fully financing Exorcism on Crooked Lake, with the company’s Nick Phillips and Kelly Martin Wagner producing alongside Sarah Shepard and Ben Browning (Inquest). The Dowdle brothers are exec producing.
5/14/2013 Deadline.com
Start Motion Pictures (formerly Wayfare Entertainment) has set 28 Weeks Later helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo to direct and Shia LaBeouf to star in Villain, a psychological thriller written by Robocop remake scribe Josh Zetumer. Villain follows two brothers who mysteriously re-connect in an unforgiving wilderness. The role of the other brother will be set shortly. Start Motion Pictures’ Ben Browning, Sarah Shepard and Jeremy Kipp Walker will produce, and Michael Maher will executive produce with Zetumer. Start will also finance. Wild Bunch will be selling the film in Cannes, alongside their other titles that include the Nicolas Refn-directed Only God Forgives, James Gray’s The Immigrant and Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties.
9/9/2012 Variety
Wayfare Entertainment has tapped Mitchell Akselrad to pen the feature adaptation of short film “The Gate.” ……
Westrup will produce the pic along with the short’s original producer, Spencer Friend, and Wayfare Entertainment’s Ben Browning and Sarah Shepard.
2/4/2011 Variety
“Sanctum” production company Wayfare Entertainment has tapped a trio of execs to join its development and production roster, with Journeyman Pictures alum Jeremy Kipp Walker (“It’s Kind of a Funny Story”) on board as head of production.
Sarah Shepard, former head of film and TV development for WAM Films, joins as VP of development and production, and Evelynda Rivera, who was manager of physical production at Focus Features, has signed on as director of physical production.
Gotham-based Wayfare, established in 2008, expands its ranks while it positions itself as a provider of development, packaging, financing and physical production services. ……
Shepard, who like Rivera joins the company later this month, will run all project sourcing and also will co-manage Wayfare’s emerging-talent lab with Walker.
12/16/2008 Variety
Verbinski will produce with Alain Chabat, Stephanie Danan and Sarah Shepard of WAM Films. The project takes root at the studio through Verbinski’s U-based Blind Wink Prods. banner.
6/9/2014 The Wrap
George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures Enters Overall Deal With Sony Pictures Television
The two-year agreement calls for Smokehouse to develop and produce comedy and drama series for broadcast, cable and digital platforms.
(http://www.thewrap.com/george-clooneys-smokehouse-pictures-enters-overall-deal-with-sony-pictures-television/)