Bryn Silverman

Filmmaker

Bryn (she/her) is an Emmy nominated filmmaker based in Louisville, KY. She is drawn to stories that explore myth making and self-determination. She was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her latest film Expression of Illness, follows her experience with thyroid cancer and will premiere at Double Exposure Film Festival. Recently, she produced Imani Dennison’s The People Could Fly (Blackstar, New Orleans Film Festival, DOC NYC 2024) and Katrina Sorrentino’s Tidal (DOC NYC 2023.) She was also an associate producer and editor on Beekeeper, which was nominated for a 2023 Emmy. She is currently producing Naveen Chaubal’s Pinball, an ITVS co-production that has been supported by the Sundance Film Institute, CAAM, the New Orleans Film Society, Just Films, the Southern Documentary Fund and others. She is also producing Riley Hooper’s Vestibule along with Caitlin Mae Burke, where she won the 2024 Points North Pitch and the 2023 Ji.hlava New Visions Forum. She was a field producer on Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an editor on This World is Not My Own (SXSW, 2023.) She was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. She is a Southern Producers’ Lab alum with the New Orleans Film Society and one of four selected to participate in the Oxford Film Festival Female Filmmaker Retreat. She graduated from the production track at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is an Associate Programmer for the Tribeca Festival. She is a proud board member of the Documentary Producers’s Alliance.

 

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