Sarah Hegge-Taylor is an award-winning director/writer/editor based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia but hailing from the swampy subtropical lands of Meanjin/Brisbane.

Sarah is a Victorian College of the Arts Film and Television School graduate and likes making films that feel like mythological poems about experiences of internal and external decay.

Her most recent film Small (2023) premiered at the 2024 St Kilda Film Festival where it was nominated for Best Original Score. It is about a family in early 19th century colonial Australia being infected with smallpox and blaming their eldest daughter as the cause. The film has also gone on to win an Australian Production Design Guild Award and won best Production Design and Score at Canberra Film Festival.

She is currently in post-production on her next film Pulp (2025), about a woman experiencing visions of her mother reflected by light.

She is developing a feature film Rotten Mangoes set in her hometown of Brisbane, a vividly painted thriller about poor teenage girls seeking revenge on the private school boys who have hurt them.

She is also an independent producer and has several films in the festival circuit, including MIFF Accelerator short Pleasure (2024) dir. Jasper Caverly, Australian Directors Guild awarded Hiraeth (2025) dir. Lucien Perry and feature film Fwends (2025) dir. by Dendy Award-winning Sophie Somerville which had it’s international premiere at the 75th Berlinale.

Contact: sarahheggetaylor@gmail.com