User:Sarah V Barton

Sarah V Barton is an Australian filmmaker mostly known for her documentaries and programs about disability. Her first documentary Untold Desires was for SBS television (made under the name Sarah Stephens) with Eva Orner. That film about sex and disability won the first Logie Award for SBS television in 1995. In 2003 Sarah created and produced the community television series No Limits which ran on community television stations around Australia for fourteen seasons. In 2010 Sarah Was awarded a Churchill Fellowship that allowed her to travel to England and the United States to research a feature documentary about the history of the disability rights movement. That film Defiant Lives was finally completed and released in 2017 and premiered at the Sydney Film Festival. That year Sarah also presented Defiant Lives at the United Nations in New York.

In 2005 Sarah co-founded the organisation Disability Media to produce content with disabled people about the experiences of disabled people. The organisation changed its name to Grit Media and later back to Disability Media. Sarah was the organisation's CEO from 2011 until it closed in 2015. Sarah has made numerous other work that advances the rights of disabled people and in 2018 launched the video on demand platform Disability Busters.

Sarah is married to architect Geoffrey Barton and has three children. Her middle child Stella Barton is a disability activist in her own right.