About Sabine Anton
Sabine Anton is the driving force behind Sabine Anton Productions, a successful television and video production company she started 1996 in New York City and is now based in Berlin, Germany. With over twenty-eight years of experience, Sabine’s innovative spirit, insatiable curiosity, and ‘can-do’ attitude have allowed her to thrive in one of the world’s most competitive industries: TV journalism. A natural storyteller, she has an impressive track record for crafting narratives that both inform and entertain.
Her journey, however, began far from New York. Born in East Berlin in 1965, Sabine enjoyed a happy childhood until her life took a sharp turn. Due to her mother’s defection to West Germany when Sabine was only 17 years old, Sabine was denied opportunities for higher education and television apprenticeships in East Germany. When her efforts to emigrate to West Germany were also blocked, she started to fight those decisions and was sentenced to 18 months in Bautzen II, a notorious political prison, for allegedly distributing information that harmed East Germany’s reputation. Sabine was finally freed in 1987, thanks to intervention by the United Nations Human Rights Commission. She moved to West Berlin, where she pursued a degree in design.
Her career blossomed internationally. After four years in Asia, two in China and two in Vietnam, Sabine made her way to New York City in 1995. Here, she carved out a name for herself in television reporting, working with various networks before expanding her focus to include custom films for charities and corporations. In 2008, she’s turned her talents to also creating personal biography films, preserving family histories and cherished memories for future generations.
These biography films serve a unique purpose: they not only celebrate the lives of loved ones but also help organize and digitize treasured collections of photos and home movies. Often, children gift these films to their parents as a way of saying “thank you” while ensuring that future generations will better understand their family’s roots, their experiences and the possible struggles their ancestors overcame.
In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Sabine made the difficult decision to return to her hometown of Berlin after living abroad for 30 years. Despite the many suggestions that her own life story would make for an inspiring biography, Sabine remains focused on telling the stories of others, preferring to stay behind the camera rather than in the spotlight.
Her dedication to capturing the essence of her clients’ lives is what makes Sabine Anton’s work truly remarkable.
ARTE TV, Germany
A studio visit with Dominique Pollès, a French sculptor living in Pietrasanta, Tuscany. He is considered as the inventor of the “Organic Cubism.”

