Sara Hofstein’s film and TV career began in New York City with positions on NBC’s KINGS in post-production and on ABC’s soap operas in programming, as well as casting seasons 6 and 7 of Food Network’s CHOPPED. After graduating from college, Sara was the Business and Legal Affairs Coordinator at Atlas Media Corp, an independent television producer in New York, where she worked on TV shows for E! Entertainment, MTV, National Geographic, and the Discovery Channel. Sara made the jump into animation upon moving to Vienna, Austria, where she was a production coordinator on seasons 2 and 3 of TALKING TOM AND FRIENDS, and later became a production manager on ROTZBUB, Austria’s first CG animated feature, which premiered in competition at the 2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival. She moved to Portland in December 2021 and soon after joined the crew of Netflix’s WENDELL AND WILD as a VFX coordinator. Sara is currently the Senior VFX Coordinator at Crafty Apes VFX and is wrapping up on Disney’s HOCUS POCUS 2. She is a proud member of WIF-PDX, ASIFA-Hollywood, Women in Animation, and the Television Academy.
