Public Education Through Film Important for Sacha Sommer

Sacha Sommer got his start in the film industry in the early 1990s, interning for Paramount Pictures as an assistant to Saturday Night Fever star Kevin Nides, and working on Tupac’s music videos “Keep Your Head Up” and “I Get Around” as an assistant to Terry Power at Power Films. Sacha Sommer’s early career also saw him acting and producing in a number of fiction-based television shows and films – crime dramas like The Chase and Dominic’s Castle, martial arts films like City Dragon, and comedy shows like Dick Clark Production’s “Bloopers and Practical Jokes.”

In 1995, however, Sacha Sommer entered the world of documentary filmmaking, setting out to educate the world about the invasion and occupation of Haiti through his award-winning film, “Intervention Chronicles of Terror.” Since then, Sacha Sommer’s filmmaking has largely focused on improving public education about important world issues through the use of film and media communications.

After a brief hiatus from filmmaking in the mid 2000s when Sacha Sommer decided to focus on teaching art and physical education to high schoolers, the director and producer has been working on various public education initiatives through film. In 2005, Sacha Sommer produced a public service announcement about the aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Center, and a PSA regarding the dangers of impact of drunk driving the following year. Sacha Sommer showed his support for America’s troops in 2007, acting as assistant director for commercials and recruitment materials for GoArmy.com and other US Army efforts.

In 2008, Sacha Sommer contributed his production and direction talent to Call & Response: A Concert to End Slavery, which brought together musicians and humanitarians to raise awareness of issues like labor slaver, sex trafficking, and the use of child soldiers around the world. After the Haitian earthquake in 2010, Sacha Sommer produced a video calling for international relief funding and documenting the devastation brought to Haiti by the earthquake. He is currently working on a documentary and a photo book regarding the devastation brought on by the earthquake.