Sara Eleanore Miller and Jack Baer Davis were married Sept. 8 at the Lilydale Assembly in Lilydale, N.Y. The Rev. Joshua A. Graber, a Lutheran pastor and a cousin of the groom, officiated with Shreyas Sreenath, a friend of the couple, participating.
The groom, a documentary filmmaker, owns LoonarCity, a production company in Minneapolis, where the bride works as a producer and a photographer.
Until August, the bride, 27, worked in Edina, Minn., as a youth advocate in supportive housing for formerly homeless youth, through Simpson Housing Services, which is based in Minneapolis. She graduated cum laude from Hamilton College.
She is a daughter of Bijou Clinger and Gregory J. Miller of New York. Her father is the owner of a software training company in New York bearing his name. Her mother, an actor and singer, is a private acting and singing coach for high school and college-bound students in New York. In the 1980s she appeared in several productions, including as Eleanor Roosevelt in the musical “Eleanor,” touring with Theatreworks USA in 1982.
The groom, 29, most recently produced “Dreams of Ice” (2017) about the Brazilian national ice hockey team, that was released at various film festivals, including the Brazilian International Film Festival in 2017, where it won the best editing award. He also produced “Cosmopolitan Wild’’ (2015), a video series on Mozambique, which he created in 2014 while he was a Fulbright fellow working in Mozambique. The series premiered in Minneapolis at the Trylon Cinema and then was used in school curriculums. He graduated from Northwestern.
He is a son of Mary Alette Davis and Bob Davis of Minneapolis. The groom’s mother retired as the director of education from the Westminister Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis. She was also an actor, appearing in 2002 as Norah in “Ah, Wilderness” on tour in 2002 with the Guthrie Theater based in Minneapolis. His father, a stage and film actor, performs regularly at the Guthrie Theater as well as other Minnesota theaters. In 2016, he played the role of the DNR Man in Mark Rylance’s play “Nice Fish,” produced by the American Repertory Theater. Until earlier this year he was a member of the Minnesota Film and TV Board.
The couple met in fall 2010 during their junior semester of college in Kampala, Uganda, when both were taking part in the SIT Study Abroad Program.
