Amanda Pike

Director of TV & Documentaries

Amanda Pike is an Emmy, Peabody and duPont Award-winning journalist and filmmaker, and the Director of TV and Documentaries at The Center for Investigative Reporting. She recently produced Victim/Suspect, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and The Grab, which premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and was the opening night film of the 2022 Double Exposure Film Festival. She executive produced the Oscar-nominated short documentary Heroin(e) for Netflix. She was executive producer of the inaugural year of the Glassbreaker Films initiative, supporting women-identifying filmmakers and journalists. Before joining CIR, she spent several years reporting and producing documentaries around the world for PBS, CBS, ABC, National Geographic, A&E, Lifetime and The Learning Channel, among others.

Participating Sessions

One Year In: Forging New Alliances in Funding and Distribution

As PBS redraws its role for nonfiction films and as major streaming platforms and traditional broadcasters narrow their slates for investigative documentaries, independent filmmakers face both daunting challenges and rare opportunities in getting their work to audiences. Navigating this unsettled territory—where public infrastructure is receding and corporate algorithms reign—has become a defining issue along today’s “New Fault Lines.” This session brings together leading voices from long-standing and emerging alternatives for...