Speaker Sara Rea
Sara Rea is an award-winning television producer with over 20 years of experience creating and producing unscripted television and documentary films. She has ten Emmy nominations, a GLAAD Award, and multiple PGA award nominations. She is currently the Head of Unscripted for Hello Sunshine, which acquired her company, SKR Productions, in 2020. Sara spent many years of her career as a successful unscripted showrunner including her prolific run as the Executive Producer of the iconic and award-winning Project Runway. Subsequently, Sara Rea created Making the Cut with Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn where she revolutionized the unscripted space by bringing t-commerce to this competition reality series on Amazon Prime. Continuing to push the boundaries in the unscripted space, Sara teamed up with Ally Financial to create Side Hustlers, an entrepreneurial docuseries following a cast of all female small business owners guided by investors Emma Grede and Ashley Graham as the women try to turn their side hustles into their main hustles. In addition, she attached The Home Edit's Joanna Teplin and Clea Shearer to ABC's reboot of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition where the two professional organizers will host and usher in a new era of this unscripted classic. In addition to groundbreaking formats, Sara pioneered a new branch of Hello Sunshine based in the UK, launched the DIY home renovation show, Renovation Rescue on Channel 4, and penned a deal with Formula One for an all-access look into their F1 Academy, a competitive cohort of young women racecar drivers. Some of her other credits include Apple TV’s My Kind of Country, Paramount's inspiring and heartwarming music documentary, Wynonna Judd: Between Hell & Hallelujah, Roku's unscripted romantic comedies, Meet Me in Paris and the sequel Meet Me in Rome and Amazon Sports’ docuseries Surf Girls Hawai'i following five female professional surfers as they navigate competition and growing up, and the Amazon Prime Video hit series, The Pasta Queen.
Speaking on: The new reality of brands and unscripted: a case study in collaboration