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Sarah Gavron (born April 20th, 1970) is a British film director. She has directed four short films, and three feature films. Her first film is, This Little Life (2003); Brick Lane (2007) is her second most recognized film; Village at the End of the World (2012); and her latest film, Suffragette (2015) that is based in London of 1912 which tells the story of the Suffragette movement based on realistic, historical events.

Sarah Gavron is also both a wife and a mother, and "got into filmmaking to make a difference." She has dedicated her career to accurately telling the stories of women. In addition, the scarcity of women filmmakers in the U.K is what inspires Gavron with her own filmmaking, and her responsibility as a female director.

Biography

While at Edinburgh College of Art, Sarah Gavron was granted a position in a directing class that was taught by Stephen Frears. Frears is one of her greatest influences in filmmaking and directing, as well as Mike Leigh and Terrence Davies.

Career

Her first film, This Little Life (2003), is classified as a television drama with the plot surrounding a couple and their premature born child ; Brick Lane (2007) is her second most recognized film, that is based off of Monica Ali's novel which encapsulates the life of a Indian, female immigrant living in London, U.K ; Village at the End of the World (2012) which is a documentary that Sarah Gavron directed in a peninsula in Greenland ; and her latest film Suffragette (2015) that is based in London of 1912 which tells the story of the Suffragette movement, specifically, the early twentieth century campaign of women's suffrage that centers the lives of three women that take on fictitious names in the film, however represent non-fictional historical figures.

In Brick Lane (2007) Gavron centers the female protagonist in "one of the most ethically diverse neighborhoods in the United Kingdom." There are several critiques of Brick Lane, including that Gavron misrepresented the main character, a Bangladeshi woman, and the neighborhood of Brick Lane as problematic and unprogressive.

Sarah Gavron points out that Suffragette (2015) is "this first major feature film to focus on the fight for women's suffrage, and it is a personal film and the highest-profile film for Gavron." The film conveys important themes regarding legal and social positions of women, wives and mothers in 1912. The film is left without any true, satisfying ending to the story, and instead, includes the historical dates of women's suffrage attainment across the globe, purposefully. Gavron believes that the women's suffrage movement must be regarded as a "multi stranded, and complex story that is still unfolding." Gavron intended Suffragette to be telling of important moments in the past, but also relevant in present day. Gavron believes that her specific focus on ordinary, every day women would make her film, and ultimately her message as a feminist, relevant across time. There are several critiques to Suffragette, specifically that the film marginalizes women of color and focuses on a very class and race specific women's movement, as the film is solely based upon the lives, and the fight, of white women.