BIOGRAPHY
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.