ABOUT
Jamie Boyle is a two-time Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has played at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW. Most recently, she wrote and edited BREAKING THE NEWS which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and will air on PBS’s Independent Lens. Her feature directorial debut, ANONYMOUS SISTER was Shortlisted for the 2023 IDA Best Documentary Award and opened to critical acclaim in select theaters nationwide in June 2023. Produced by Big Mouth Productions (Dick Johnson Is Dead) and Vulcan Productions (Summer of Soul), Jamie directed, filmed, and edited ANONYMOUS SISTER, a chronicle of her family’s collision with the opioid epidemic that spans over three decades. The film is distributed by Long Shot Factory and has received support from Sundance Documentary Fund, Sundance Catalyst Lab, IDA, Fork Films, Perspective Fund, NYSCA, and others. She edited TRANS IN AMERICA: TEXAS STRONG, winner of the 2019 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary. TEXAS STRONG was the first of a three-part docu-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 News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Social Issue Documentary. Jackson premiered at the LA Film Festival and was awarded Best Documentary at over fifteen festivals. She was the Associate Editor and Production Manager on E-TEAM (Netflix), which won the 2014 Sundance Film Festival Cinematography Award and was nominated for two News and Documentary Emmys, including Best 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 in 2015. She taught at the Bronx Documentary Center and as a guest lecturer at Columbia University. She served as a judge for the 2017 News and Documentary Emmy Awards and was selected for the 2019 DOC NYC 40 Under 40 list. Visit IMDB page.
PRESS | AWARDS
BREAKING THE NEWS (Writer, Editor)
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Tribeca Film Festival Subject Matter Grant (2023)
Montclair Film Festival David Carr Award for Truth in Filmmaking (2023)
- Press -
HAMMER TO NAIL’S 20 MOST-ANTICIPATED FILMS AT TRIBECA 2023
IDA’s The Preview: Nine Documentaries to Catch at Tribeca 2023
“An immersive, crowd-pleasing, candid portrait…Breaking the News is one of those rare films that, like Citizenfour, might be seen as a major landmark in cinéma vérité documentaries about journalism.” - Film Stage
“One of the great beauties of this poignant film is how we get to see the challenges faced by those attempting to live by high ideals.” - Hammer to Nail
ANONYMOUS SISTER (Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor)
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News and Documentary Emmy Award Nominee - Outstanding Social Issue Documentary
IDA Best Feature Documentary Shortlist 2023
Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary Feature - Anchorage International Film Festival
Sundance Documentary Fund, Sundance Catalyst Lab & Talent Forum, IDA Enterprise Fund, Fork Films, Perspective Fund
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The Hollywood Reporter’s Guide to the 2024 Oscar’s Top Documentaries
“Searing, Achingly personal…An impressive feat of editing.” - RogerEbert
“A full-on cinematic disquisition on the terrible, rippling side effects and consequences of the pharmaceutical industry’s greed, which in turn reflects capitalistic rapaciousness more broadly." - Golden Globes
“Boyle proves a masterful editor” - Hammer to Nail
"Shocking, upsetting, maddening and necessary." - Hollywood Soapbox
TRANS IN AMERICA: TEXAS STRONG (Editor)
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News and Documentary Emmy Award Winner - Best Short Documentary (2019)
Webby Award - Best Documentary: Longform (2019)
Webby Award - People’s Voice Award
JACKSON (Editor, Producer, Cinematographer)
- Awards -
News and Documentary Emmy Award Winner - Outstanding Social Issue Documentary (2018)
Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary Feature - New Orleans Film Festival, Indie Memphis Film Festival, Hot Springs Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Social Justice Film Festival and more. | Audience Award - Portland Film Festival | Outstanding Courage in Filmmaking Award - at Tallgrass Film Festival.
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"Easily one of the year’s strongest documentaries, this is also one of 2016’s most well made, with genuinely superb photography and editing that elevates this from your typical issue documentary into something far greater." - Criterion Cast
"This well-crafted film adds to our understanding by humanizing some of the opponents." - The Hollywood Reporter
"a strong and scrupulously even-handed addition to the annals of documentaries on this most divisive of subjects, including “12th & Delaware,” “After Tiller” and the recent “Trapped.”' - LA Times
"...timely and necessary...JACKSON serves as a grim warning of what restrictive abortion legislation across the U.S. actually looks like for the people it affects the most: women." - The Huffington Post
E-TEAM (Associate Editor, Production Manager)
- Awards -
News and Documentary Emmy Award Nominee - Best Documentary & Outstanding Coverage of a Current News Story-Long Form | US Documentary Cinematography Award - Sundance Film Festival | F:ACT Award - CPH:DOX | Best Documentary - New Hampshire Film Festival
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"...an outstandingly gripping and heartbreaking non-fiction achievement." - IndieWire
"E-TEAM has a ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy as it takes the viewer on an intense ride-along with Human Rights Watch investigators. - LA Times
"Exciting, absorbing and stubbornly optimistic in the face of overwhelming devastation, “E-Team” will, with any luck, shed deserved light on the routine sacrifices these activists and professionals make for the sake of human values." - The Washington Post
"The valiant and vital work of four globetrotting human rights activists is expertly illuminated in “E-Team,” a dynamic and immersive piece of you-are-there verite...sharp storytelling, death-defying videography and engrossing protagonists." "Netflix has another Oscar hopeful in its quiver." - Variety
Sundance Talent Forum (2019), DOC NYC 40 Under 40 (2019)
© JAMIE BOYLE 2020