Bryn is a producer, director and editor based in Louisville, KY. Recently, she was a field producer on Paula Eiselt’s Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an editor on This World is Not My Own (SXSW, 2023.) She post-produced and edited a DACA PSA “Are you afraid of Monsters?,” which was honored at the 2018 Webby’s in the category “best film - public service & activism.” She was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a six part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. She was also an additional editor on the feature documentary Roll Red Roll. She is a Southern Producers’ Lab Fellow with the New Orleans Film Society and one of four selected to participate in the Oxford Film Festival Female Filmmaker Retreat. She graduated from the production track at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and is an Associate Programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival.
She co-edited and produced the short film Pinball, which screened at the Director’s Guild through Film Independent and premiered online on NoBudge, where it won the Audience Choice Award. She is currently producing the feature adaptation of Pinball in Louisville, Kentucky. Pinball is supported by ITVS, the Southern Doc Fund, the New Orleans Film Society, CAAM and the Sundance Institute.
Bryn’s work explores myth making in American history through women’s stories. Today, you can find her knee deep in post-production on a documentary about Annie Oakley, produced by Naveen Chaubal and edited by Arielle Zakowski.
In addition to her film work, Bryn is a thyroid cancer survivor and patient advocate. She was invited to speak at the 2021 and 2022 Thyroid Cancer Survivors’ Association annual conferences, where she led a session about the importance of first-person narratives and patient advocacy. Her latest film Expression of Illness follows her own journey with thyroid cancer and has been supported by the Kentucky Foundation for Women, the New Orleans Film Society and South Arts.
Say hallo: brynsilverman@gmail.com