Sarah Kernochan (born December 30, 1947) is an Oscar-winning documentarian, film director, screenwriter and producer from the United States.
After attending Rosemary Hall (where she was a classmate of Glenn Close) and graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1968, she worked as a ghostwriter for The Village Voice for about a year. After quitting that job, she became interested in documentary filmmaking and soon gained national prominence in the ...
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Sarah Kernochan (born December 30, 1947) is an Oscar-winning documentarian, film director, screenwriter and producer from the United States.
After attending Rosemary Hall (where she was a classmate of Glenn Close) and graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1968, she worked as a ghostwriter for The Village Voice for about a year. After quitting that job, she became interested in documentary filmmaking and soon gained national prominence in the United States as co-director and co-producer of the 1972 film Marjoe (about evangelist Marjoe Gortner), which won an Academy Award for Documentary Feature.
During the next two years, she released two albums on RCA Records as a singer-songwriter, House of Pain and Beat Around the Bush.
In 1977 Kernochan's novel Dry Hustle (ISBN 0688031498 in hard cover, ISBN 0425036618 in paperback) was published.
Kernochan's first screen credit as a screenwriter came with the 1986 film 9½ Weeks. She commented on her contribution to that film in an interview...
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