Sarah Ballard is a filmmaker and educator based in Milwaukee, WI. Her films understand mental illness as existing beyond the individual and explore how the body's uncontrollable impulses can act as both a site of vulnerability and an instrument of resistance.

Sarah's work has been programmed nationally and internationally at venues and festivals such as Institute for Contemporary Arts London, Museum of the Moving Image New York, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival,  Images Festival, Crossroads, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Athens International Film and Video Festival, and Antimatter [Media Art], among others. She is a 2025-2026 Mary L. Nohl Fund Artist Fellow and a recipient of the 2023 Princess Grace Award in Film. Sarah currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.

email sarahballardfilm@gmail.com for inquiries