About
Sarah Nocquet is a French-American screenwriter and director. Born and raised in Paris, she moved to New York to pursue a degree in film & TV production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and has since expanded her domain of work to include Paris, New York, and London. Her short films have played at Clermont-Ferrand, Palm Springs ShortFest, Austin Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and Woodstock Film Festival among others. Her short psychological thriller Speed Queen 51 (2024) starring Rory Culkin was acquired by Kinogo Pictures for distribution as part of an anthology feature (anticipated release 2026). Her 5min drama Decoy (2025) starring Lia Williams is currently on the festival circuit.
Sarah has written feature-length biopics for NYC-based Intrinsic Value Films and Paris-based Kaiwo Studio. Since 2021, she runs an annual writers retreat during which all participants write the first draft of a feature film in two weeks. To date, her solo screenwriting portfolio includes 7 spec features and 2 commissioned feature screenplays. Sarah enjoys examining the inner life of female protagonists and toying with absurdism and irony in psychological thrillers. She is currently in development for her feature directorial debut.
Outside of writing and directing her own projects, Sarah can be found working as a story writer, script consultant, music video director, assistant director, and script supervisor. She is a co-producer, story writer, and script supervisor of the feature film These Men Die Young produced by Terra Films and directed by Alfonso Morgan-Terrero, set to shoot in Spring 2026. She has 1st ADed over fifty productions, including shorts, features, commercials, and music videos. Her most recent feature film as 1st AD, Worry Time, premiered at Berlin Critics Week in 2026.
Over the years, Sarah has held a variety of jobs in the film and television industry. She was a producer’s assistant for EMJAG Productions (The Wolf of Wall Street, Tár, Black Bird). She spent three summers teaching teenagers the basics of filmmaking at NYU’s Summer Filmmakers Workshop, and worked for three years at NYU’s film archive as a projectionist and archivist. During her college years, she completed internships at a few production companies, including Sesame Street. She works with fluent proficiency in English, French, and Spanish, with past productions in France, UK, USA, and Dominican Republic.