Talent Guide

Bryn Silverman

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Producing Lab 2025

Bio

Bryn is a documentary filmmaker based in Louisville, KY. She is drawn to stories that explore self-determination and she loves a good archive. In 2024, she was named one of Filmmaker Magazine‘s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her latest films include The People Could Fly (a POV and Chicken & Egg co-production) and Emmy nominated Beekeeper. Her directorial debut Expression of Illness was nominated for Best Emerging Director at the 2025 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival and won Special Jury Recognition for Best Documentary Short at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Her movies have screened at True/False, SXSW, DC/DOX, Hot Docs, DOC NYC, Big Sky, NOFF and Blackstar, among others. She is currently producing Pinball, an ITVS co-production that has been supported by the Sundance Film Institute, CAAM, the New Orleans Film Society, Just Films, the Southern Documentary Fund, Sheffield Meet Market, Hot Docs Deal Maker and others. She is also producing Vestibule, with which she won the 2024 Points North Pitch and the 2023 Ji.hlava New Visions Forum. She was a Southern Producers Lab Fellow and is a board member of the Documentary Producers Alliance. She also co-founded Hyphen Film Center in Louisville, KY.

Current Project

Pinball

Logline

Pinball is a feature documentary that follows 19-year-old Yosef in suburban Louisville, Kentucky as he dives into the memories of his journey from Iraq to America and what it ultimately means for him to chase his dreams in the shadow of a war that displaced his family from their Iraqi homeland.