Sabrina Van Tassel is an award winning film director and a journalist. She has directed over 45 documentary films in the last 20 years. Van Tassel is lauded for her documentaries focusing mainly on women, social justice and political matters. Such as underage sex trafficking, children in the white nationalist movement, guns, school bullying, women on death row and the holocaust.
“The Silenced Walls” (2015) her first documentary theatrically released was critically acclaimed. It told her journey to discover the history of the biggest internment camp in France, turned into a social housing building at the end of the war.
Her 2020 feature “The State of Texas vs Melissa” created a major national media stir. After premiering at Tribeca and winning 14 awards around the globe, this film about the first woman sentenced to death in Texas, was sparked by an effective grassroots campaign. With political, social and celebrity support, the film went viral around the world leading to numerous petitions for a down to the wire stay of execution for Melissa Lucio, who was saved 48 hours before her execution date.