Sara Vessal

Actress
Producer

This is a short film about a young Yezidi girl, Luna, who is captured during the Islamic State's siege of her village near Sinjar, Iraq and sold as a slave. She must learn to survive in a windowless underground dungeon shared with two other captives, and with their help, she musters the strength required to stay alive and eventually escape for the sake of her people.

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Three Days in the Hole (2018)

Sara Vessal is the 4x-great granddaughter of 19th Century Persian Poet, Vessal Shirazi. She majored in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Berkeley, where she graduated with Honors, and was awarded the Special Distinction Eisner Prize in Film. Sara is an alumnae of the Baron Brown Studio, where she studied the Meisner Technique. She also trained at The Groundlings, UCB, and Improvatorium.

Sara was discovered by director Rob Nilsson who cast her as the lead in his feature film Security (2005), which won the Audience Award at the Green Cine Film Festival. She can be seen in rapper Witt Lowry's music video "Last Letter" (2018) starring opposite Zachary Gordon, which has garnered over 3 million views on YouTube. Sara also plays a strong supporting role in Three Days in the Hole (2018), which has screened at numerous film festivals, including the Hollywood Film Festival, WorldFest Houston where it won the Gold Remi Award, and the prestigious Cannes Film Festival in France. Following Cannes, she wrapped the feature film thriller The Stand at Paxton County (2020).

When she's not acting, Sara is producing documentaries like We Came Home (2013), which won the Jury Award at the Sao Paulo International Film Festival, and the Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival.