Press:

Andrés Buenahora and Jazz Tangcay, “Film Independent Announces Emerging Filmmaker Award Honorees,” Variety, January 4, 2025.

Steve Pond, “Sarah Winshall, Rachel Elizabeth Seed, Sarah Friedland Win Indie Spirit Emerging Filmmaker Awards,” The Wrap, January 4, 2025.
Elsa Keslassy, “Music Box Buys Venice Prizewinning Film ‘Familiar Touch’ Directed by Rising Filmmaker Sarah Friedland,” Variety, December 9, 2024.
Ela Bittencourt, “Familiar Touch review: a lovingly told coming-of-old-age film,” Sight and Sound, September 17, 2024.
Nicolas Rapold, “‘We Ascribe This Cuteness to Older Adults’: Sarah Friedland on Familiar Touch,” Filmmaker Magazine, September 13, 2024.
Lily Ford, “Venice Film Festival Awards,” The Hollywood Reporter, September 7, 2024.
Guy Lodge, “‘Familiar Touch’ Review: An Exquisite Study of Living with Dementia That Puts Its Perspective In The Right Place, Variety, September 7, 2024.
Alison Wilmore, “Familiar Touch Is an Infinitely Tender Movie About Dementia,” Vulture, September 5, 2024.
Rory O’Connor, “Venice Review: Sarah Friedland’s Wonderfully Gentle Familiar Touch Heralds a New Voice,” The Film Stage, September 4, 2024.
Wendy Ide, “Familiar Touch: Venice Review,” Screen Daily, September 3, 2024.
Lovia Gyarkye, “‘Familiar Touch’ Review: A Tender Debut Frames Older Adulthood as Its Own Coming-of-Age,” The Hollywood Reporter, September 3, 2024.
Hannah Strong, “Familiar Touch: First-Look Review,” Little White Lies, September 7, 2024.
Marta Balaga, “In Sarah Friedland’s Venice Drama ‘Familiar Touch’ Older Adults Don’t “Fade Away”: Their Senses Intensify,” Variety, September 2, 2024.