GOOD TALK WITH JAMIE BOYLE
Writer & Editor for BREAKING THE NEWS
Jamie Boyle is a two-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her work has played at Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, and many others. Her feature directorial debut, ANONYMOUS SISTER opened to critical acclaim in theaters nationwide in 2023, was shortlisted for the 2023 IDA Best Documentary Award, and is a 2024 Emmy Award-nominee for Best Social Issue Documentary.
Most recently, she wrote and edited BREAKING THE NEWS which premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and aired on PBS’s Independent Lens. 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 was the lead video editor for the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch.
She has been a guest lecturer at Brown University, Columbia University, NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse), and others. 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.