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Wendy Sachs

Filmmaker

Wendy Sachs is the director and executive producer of OCTOBER 8, a documentary about the explosion of antisemitism on college campuses, on social media and in the streets of America in the aftermath of Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The film, released theatrically across America in March of 2025, was the number one documentary at the box office in its second week and has distribution in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Latin America, Greece, Germany and Israel. Wendy is also an Emmy-award winning network news television producer (NBC, CNN, FOX), writer, author and speaker. She co-directed and produced Surge, a feature documentary about the record number of first-time female candidates who ran, won and flipped their red districts to blue in the historic 2018 midterm elections. Wendy is also a former Capitol Hill press secretary, media relations executive, and the author of two critically acclaimed books about women and careers, "Fearless and Free" and "How She Really Does It." She has appeared on dozens of radio segments, TV shows and podcasts, including CNN, CNN International, FOX, MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Dan Senor's "Call Me Back," "Donny Deutsch's "On Brand," NBC's "Today," and ABC's "Good Morning America.”