About the Producers

Sarah Wallis

Sarah Wallis, ​director of Russia’s Open Book

Sarah Wallis, ​director of Russia’s Open Book

RUSSIA’S OPEN BOOK co-director Sarah Wallis is a Russian speaker and a published author with over 20 years of documentary film experience, including eight years with the BBC. Credits include Letters from St Petersburg, The People’s Century (which won both the DuPont Peabody and Emmy awards for her episode, “Master Race”); and Homecoming, about Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Royal Television Society Award). Wallis’s books (with Svetlana Palmer) include A War in Words (Simon & Schuster) and We Were Young and at War (Harper Collins).