About

 Sarah Barton is a 2010 Churchill Fellow with 30 years’ filmmaking experience. Her first film Untold Desires (1994) about sexuality and disability won the first Logie Award for SBS television and an AFI Award.  In 2003 Sarah created and produced 70 episodes of the award-winning disability community television series No Limits. In 2017 Sarah’s feature documentary Defiant Lives about the disability rights movement premiered at Sydney Film Festival and also screened at the United Nations in New York.  In 2024 Sarah was a member of the Australian Paralympic team as the key support person for her daughter Stella who competed in the Paris Paralympics in para-dressage.  Sarah is currently making a feature documentary about comedian and disability activist Stella Young. Sarah runs a subscription video on demand service at www.disabilitybusters.com

 Sarah’s production company Fertile Films has been producing documentaries, commissioned videos and comedy for more than 25 years. We work with diverse people to create videos that empower, motivate and educate. We mainly make documentaries, commissioned videos and comedy. We believe that comedy is a great way to communicate ideas.

Fertile Films works with government and the not for profit sector to create content that makes the world a better place.