Sarah Rose graduated with honors from the University of Iowa. After graduation, Sarah Rose moved to Los Angeles, California and began working on commercials and independent shorts as a Second Assistant Director.  She also attended Jim Pasternak’s school of Directing (LA Film School instructor).

Sarah Rose worked with Jeff Dowd, an independent Producer’s Representative and Marketing Consultant (“Blood Simple”, “Hoosiers”).  She served as his Creative Executive and Producing Partner, handling screenings, marketing, and press on a number of projects, including: “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”, “Easy”, “Duma” and Paul Reiser’s “The Thing About My Folks” at film festivals, including Sundance and Tribeca.  Moreover, she has worked with Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, and Reese Witherspoon on the political fundraising event featuring “Going Up River: The Long War of John Kerry.”  She also coordinated a three city tour for Get Out the Vote for Sean Penn, Lawrence Bender, and Callie Khouri, and worked on Neil Young’s “Greendale” at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Additionally, Sarah Rose has utilized her skills as a writing consultant, developing a number of scripts.  Notably, she worked with Paola di Florio, an Academy Award Nominated Filmmaker (“Speaking in Strings”, “Home of the Brave”), developing TV shows as an editor, camera-person and Creative Executive.  Furthermore, Sarah Rose edited television shows for Bravo, TV Land, and Comedy Central. She was the story editor and co-editor for “Fields of Fuel,” a.k.a. “Fuel,” winner of the Audience Award for featured films in the documentary competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Sarah Rose has been working as Associate Producer at Counterpoint Films with Paola di Florio and Lisa Leeman on the upcoming “Documentary of a Yogi,” serving responsibilities ranging from field director to post-production supervisor.

She directed and conceived of the idea for Black Heart Vacancy’s new major music video, “Manoverboard.” Sarah Rose directed “A Stand Up Guy,” a short film written and produced by Sarah Rose and Sara Mattison, starring Ron Babcock from “Last Comic Standing.”