With 20 years of professional experience across technology and creativity, Sara spent the first half of her career in technical roles and moved to leading production technology research in 2012.
Relying on longstanding relationships with Industry stakeholders, a deep understanding of creative requirements and first-hand experience on the latest technical developments, she focuses on driving strategies that deliver ground-breaking innovations, whilst fuelling business growth. Targeting answers to questions that have not been asked yet is what she does best.
Born in a small town in Southern Italy, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts obtaining a 1st class honours both for BA and MA in Set Design and Theatre Directing. After working as a journalist and newsreader in a TV network for a year, she went back to studying for her MSc in Computer Graphics.
Sara contributed to CGI content and film editing for major projects at national and international level, including collaborations with Disney, VUE Cinemas, Gucci, Replay, the Dali Universe (London); produced a number of independent films (including the short form 'Alex the Vampire', one of the first creative projects based on Sony CineAlta workflow, sponsored by Sony) and collaborated with well known post-production houses, including Moving Picture Company, Molinare and Lipsync Post.
Being of the strong opinion that technology should deliver the innovations that creativity needs, Sara joined Foundry in 2015 to manage their research and innovation projects. Until 2018, she supported the delivery of large collaborative projects with top international entities in the Industry and Academia, including the Dreamspace project, funded under the EU Horizon FP7 Programme and awarded "Excellence for technical and management achievements" by the European Commission.
In 2019, Sara moved to Los Angeles to run production technology research and tests on her own film project, funded entirely by a major Hollywood Entity. The support of Industry stakeholders including DNEG, RED, Zeiss, ARRI and Pinewood Studios helped her deliver exceptional results, granting the Studio's further commitment to the film project.
Back to her beloved London, Sara joined disguise in 2020, asked to undertake the role of Head of Research Programme shortly afterwards. Since then, the Research Team has delivered exceptional work under UK and EU funded programmes, has been awarded a mention on the European Innovation Radar as "outperforming in innovation management and innovation readiness" and has been granted further three years of public support under the Horizon Europe Research and innovation funding programme.