Saralena Weinfield is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has produced feature documentaries and series for HBO, Netflix, National Geographic, PBS and other international broadcasters. Weinfield is known for producing, directing and writing documentaries acclaimed for their nuance, complexity, and timeliness, and which feature powerful subjects who haven't had their stories told.

Recent projects include Hulu's 2023 series Never Let Him Go which won Best Factual Series at the Australian International Documentary Awards, and HBO’s celebrated 2022 series Hostages which was nominated for three Emmy Awards and won the Emmy for Best Historical Documentary. Previous projects include HBO's Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered, which was executive produced by John Legend and Jay-Z and won the 2020 International Documentary Association award for Best Documentary Series, the NAACP Image Award for Best Documentary, and was also nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, Peabody Award, and Cinema Eye Award. Other work includes David Cassidy: The Last Session, and Joe Berlinger’s award-winning Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes. In 2010, she directed, wrote and co-produced with Oscar-nominated filmmaker Jonathan Stack After the Spill: The Last Catch, a National Geographic documentary about Louisiana fishermen affected by the BP oil spill. Weinfield has also directed video campaigns for labor groups, including Justice at Hershey’s, launched by the National Guestworker Alliance, which went viral and prompted a State Department investigation of Hershey’s factory conditions.

Weinfield is based in Brooklyn, NY and is currently working on an independent feature documentary set in Berlin during the Cold War.