Zara Serabian-Arthur
Director

Zara Serabian-Arthur is a documentary film editor, producer and director, whose work has been featured on Hulu, PBS, National Geographic, The New York Times and The New Yorker, screened at Sundance, and distributed theatrically. Her documentary feature and broadcast credits include Stolen Youth: Inside the Cult at Sarah Lawrence (Series Editor), Justice (Editor), Sky Blossom (Editor), Art21: Between Worlds (Editor), Emergent City (Consulting Editor), and Dark Money (Additional Editor), among others. She has also directed, produced and edited scores of short films commissioned by NYC’s leading nonprofits, foundations and cultural institutions, including the Tenement Museum, Ford Foundation and the Participatory Budgeting Project, among many others. In both her commissioned and independent work, she has prioritized telling stories that shift narratives in support of movements for social, economic and racial justice, sustainability, and democracy. Zara is also actively involved in the cooperative and solidarity economy movements in NYC. She has worked on mapping, organizing, and community-based research projects withSolidarityNYC, is a former Board Member of New York City Network of Worker Cooperatives, and a Peer Educator with the Cooperative Economics Alliance of New York City.