Sayre Quevedo

Sayre Quevedo is a documentary artist. He works across mediums to tell stories about intimacy, identity, and human relationships.  In 2018 his audio documentary short Espera received the Third Coast/RHDF Directors' Choice Award and his audio documentary feature The Quevedos was nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the International Documentary Association (IDA). The following year he won the 2019 Third Coast/RHDF Gold Award for Best Documentary for The Return. That feature was also nominated for a Best Audio Documentary award by the IDA, his second nomination two years in a row. In 2022 Quevedo was nominated twice by the IDA for Best Stand-Alone Audio Documentary, winning the award for Documenting a Death by Euthanasia.

Quevedo was the Fall 2019 Podcaster-In-Residence for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He has worked at The New York Times, Latino USA, and VICE News. He was the story editor for Peabody-Award-Winning podcast When We All Get to Heaven. And his forthcoming audio memoir Reaching Out won the Audio Memoir Award at Tribeca Film Festival. He currently teaches at New York University's Journalism Masters program. He is a founding editor at Sound Fields, a journal dedicated to the art and craft of audio documentary.