Kim A. Snyder

Kim A. Snyder

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Biography

Kim A Snyder is an Academy Award nominated, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning Director/Producer. Her latest feature documentary, The Librarians, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and won a 2026 Primetime Emmy® for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. The Librarians has won 30 festival awards, was released theatrically in over 200 cities internationally, and broadcast on PBS/Independent Lens.

Her most recent short documentary, Death By Numbers, was nominated for a 2025 Academy Award®. Snyder’s other acclaimed films include Us Kids (Sundance 2020), Lessons From A School Shooting (Best Short Doc Tribeca 2018, Netflix Original), Newtown (Sundance 2016, Peabody Award, PBS/Independent Lens), and Welcome To Shelbyville (2009 PBS/Independent Lens). She associate produced the Academy Award®-winning short Trevor, which inspired The Trevor Project, a leading national nonprofit focused on LGBTQ+ youth suicide prevention.

Kim earned a master's degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and resides in New York City.

Movies with Kim A. Snyder

Movies directed by Kim A. Snyder

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