Sara Gunnarsdó́ttir is born and raised in the capital area of Iceland, Reykjavik. She has a BFA degree in Fine Arts and received her MFA degree in Experimental Animation from California Institute of the Arts in 2012.
Sara has been working in film for almost two decades. Her thesis film, animated documentary short named The Pirate of Love, premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2012 and was nominated for student Academy awards, alternative category in 2013. She went on to create animations and original artwork for The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015), directed by Marielle Heller. Sara ́s latest project as animation director is on the HBO docu-series The Case Against Adnan Syed (2019) directed by Amy Berg.
Sara lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.