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Sabrina Schmidt Gordon is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker. She is known for producing and editing films on cultural and social issues.
She co-produced and edited DOCUMENTED, a documentary about Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist and immigration activist. DOCUMENTED was nominated for the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary. Her film BaddDDD Sonia Sanchez, an episode of America ReFramed about poet and activist Sonia Sanchez, was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. Other notable filmography include Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, produced with Byron Hurt, and Quest, produced with , which was nominated for the 2018 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Gordon graduated from New York University and is an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University.