Jamie Boyle is a two-time Emmy Award®-winning documentary filmmaker. She is a Sundance Institute, IDA, and NYSCA-supported artist, a DOC NYC 40 Under 40 recipient, and a Sundance Talent Forum Fellow. Her films have screened at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXW, and have been distributed by Showtime, HBO Max, PBS, Netflix, AppleTv+, and Amazon Prime. She was the director, DP, and editor of ANONYMOUS SISTER, which opened to critical acclaim in theaters across the U.S., was nominated for a 2024 Emmy® Award for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary, and was shortlisted for the IDA Best Documentary Award. She produced and edited the upcoming documentary feature, KEEP QUIET & FORGIVE, premiering on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2026. She is the writer and editor of BREAKING THE NEWS which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, aired on Independent Lens in 2024, and was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 GLAAD Awards. She edited TRANS IN AMERICA: TEXAS STRONG, winner of the 2019 Emmy® for Outstanding Short Documentary. TEXAS STRONG was the first of a three-part series she edited that premiered at SXSW in 2019 and launched on them. (TeenVogue and Conde Nast’s LGBTQ+ platform). She was the editor, producer, and cinematographer for JACKSON (Showtime), winner of the 2018 Emmy® for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. JACKSON premiered at the LA Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary at over fifteen festivals nationwide. She was the Associate Editor of E-TEAM (Netflix), which won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award and was nominated for two Emmys®, including Best Feature Documentary. She directed, filmed, and edited TAKE A VOTE, a short documentary spotlighting the fight against voter suppression that premiered at DOC NYC in 2020. She edited a variety of projects for the American Civil Liberties Union and other non-profit organizations. As the lead video editor for Human Rights Watch in 2014, she edited THE UNRAVELING, a multimedia report focusing on the conflict in the Central African Republic. It premiered at the 2014 Human Rights Watch Film Festival and won an Overseas Press Club of America Award. She is currently editing the upcoming feature documentary HOLLYWOOD DOES ABORTION from the team behind the Academy Award-shortlisted, Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa. She served as a judge for the News & Documentary Emmys® and a guest lecturer at Brown University’s School of Public Health, Columbia University, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Visit IMDB page.
