JAMIE BOYLE

Jamie Boyle is a three-time Emmy® nominated and two-time Emmy® winning filmmaker. Her films focus on a range of topics and social issues. She is a Sundance Institute, International Documentary Association, and NYSCA-supported artist, a DOC NYC 40 Under 40 recipient, and a Sundance Catalyst Lab & Talent Forum fellow. Her directorial debut, Anonymous Sister, was shortlisted for the 2023 IDA Best Documentary Feature Award and nominated for a 2024 Emmy Award®. Her films have been distributed by Showtime, HBO Max, Netflix, PBS, AppleTV, and Amazon Prime, premiering at Sundance, Tribeca, and SXSW. She was the in-house editor at Human Rights Watch and following the 2016 presidential election, directed and edited more than two dozen short documentaries for the ACLU. She served as a judge for the News & Documentary Emmys and Catapult Film Fund. She’s been a guest lecturer at Brown University’s School of Public Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the NIH, and Columbia University.

BREAKING THE NEWS

Writer| Editor

GLAAD Award Nominee, Best Documentary 2025

“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