https://www.brynsilverman.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/9f9fcdb6-53da-4d3e-a830-682cac9e710f/DSCF2380.jpg About Bryn is based in Louisville, KY. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2024 and is a 2025 Film Independent Documentary Producing Fellow. Her latest film Expression of Illness, follows her experience with thyroid cancer and premiered at True/False and screened at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival where it won Special Jury Recognition, the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival where Bryn was nominated for Best Emerging Director, and the Flatland Film Festival where she won Best Director - Documentary. She produced Imani Dennison's The People Could Fly (Blackstar, New Orleans Film Festival, DOC NYC 2024) and Katrina Sorrentino's Tidal (DOC NYC 2023.) She was also an associate producer and editor on Beekeeper, which was nominated for a 2023 Emmy. She is currently producing Naveen Chaubal's 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 and others. She is also producing Riley Hooper's Vestibule along with Caitlin Mae Burke, where she won the 2024 Points North Pitch and the 2023 Ji.hlava New Visions Forum. She was a field producer on Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an editor on This World is Not My Own (SXSW, 2023.) She was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. She is a Southern Producers’ Lab alum 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 Festival. She is a proud board member of the Documentary Producers's Alliance. https://www.brynsilverman.com/athyroidstory daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/8056f66e-dbcc-48ab-be08-0ff3e5cc088c/MRC.jpeg A Thyroid Story - Matthew Robert Cooper | Composer Matthew Robert Cooper (aka Eluvium) is a composer from the Pacific Northwest known for his fusion of cinematic, ambient, classical, experimental, and electronic composition. His music has been featured in films, television, and shorts including work for HBO, Showtime, Universal, Apple TV+ and Sundance award winning films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/07b5c3ba-22a7-451c-8bff-77e09327305f/IMG_12D92CAB2236-1.jpeg A Thyroid Story - Support our impact campaign to bring resources to thyroid cancer patients and survivors around the world! Venmo: @bryn-silverman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/ae4bc67d-1f7f-4aac-9c79-4507116065b2/EOI+poster_101425v3.jpg A Thyroid Story - Join us in DC and Pennyslvania! We’re screening at the Patient Insight Congress and Centre Film Festival in November. Get your tickets here! NEWS: Expression of Illness wins Special Jury Recognition at MNFF and Best Director - Documentary at Flatland Film Festival! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/2215efe1-555d-49b4-a789-69ce4f87e5fb/IMG_0032.jpeg A Thyroid Story - Naveen Chaubal | Producer Naveen has worked for AJ+, Vice News, and produced music videos for James Blake and Frank Ocean. He’s a fellow of Film Independent's Project: Involve and Fast Track programs. His short film “Pinball” screened at the DGA and the Speed Art Museum and premiered online on NoBudge.com and won Audience Choice. He co-shot and co-produced Tomorrow We Disappear, a feature documentary that chronicles the last days of the Kathputli colony. A community hidden in the alleyways of New Delhi full of magicians, acrobats and puppeteers approaches their looming eviction to make way for a modern skyscraper. The film premiered at Tribeca and screened at Hot Docs and CPH:DOX, and Salem Film Fest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1634846398745-18ML908WKHXFN5HQN467/Christine+headshot.jpeg A Thyroid Story - Christine Turner | Consulting Producer Christine Turner is an Oscar nominated filmmaker whose work has been called “Exquisitely tender” and “Thoughtful and enlightening” by The Washington Post. Her most recent film “The Barber of Little Rock” is nominated in the 2024 Oscars. Recently, her short film Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was featured as a New York Times Op-Doc. Previously, Christine directed the critically acclaimed documentary Homegoings, about a renowned funeral director in Harlem. Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, the film premiered at Documentary Fortnight at MoMA and aired nationally on the PBS series POV in 2013. In addition, Christine’s fiction shorts have screened at festivals widely including Sundance and Tribeca. Her film Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day, a production of Firelight Films in association with MTV Documentary Films, will be released in the fall of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/93321d37-2d9d-47e3-85e0-0105eaa2ce22/Screenshot+2023-03-29+at+6.22.45+PM.png A Thyroid Story - Short Synopsis After a routine follow up appointment, documentary filmmaker and thyroid cancer survivor, Bryn Silverman learns her treatment isn’t over. What begins as a solo investigation into the thoroughness of her healthcare, evolves into a larger re-imagining of the metrics we use to measure our well-being and the importance of community in healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/73bde84c-bf90-40c6-82a4-de8453384464/Bryn_Silverman_headshot+jpg.jpg A Thyroid Story - Bryn Silverman | Director Bryn was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a six part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. Recently she was a field producer on Paula Eiselt’s Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an additional 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 also an additional editor on the acclaimed 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. https://www.brynsilverman.com/north-star daily 0.75 2023-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1658249861721-56A64QD6KNJ3FJY4QLJS/Bryn_Silverman_headshot+jpg.jpg North Star - Bryn Silverman / Director Bryn was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a six part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. Recently she was a field producer on Paula Eiselt’s Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an additional 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 also an additional editor on the acclaimed 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654196715781-OTDPOF09SLFITXS8NT6L/Screen+Shot+2022-06-02+at+3.00.26+PM.png North Star - Naveen Chaubal / Producer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654197202476-MS56P1KH0CMWBL6JYHKZ/Screen+Shot+2022-06-02+at+3.12.19+PM.png North Star - Arielle Zakowski / Editor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1689439129420-KV8ZN36TJ44WVUNDSMXW/Matt_headshot.jpg North Star - Matt Head / Composer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1689439129615-H2ABD91WCP885CDR4NKQ/Sonia.jpeg North Star - Sonia Reyka / Archivist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1702380696839-B0ZM4C8CN1SOC97EFOAM/IMG_0065.jpeg North Star - Jackie Chang / Animator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205087331-VXMLH7RBMQH7QGONIAQ8/Dani_1.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205137172-GUL00ISXBNIBT0KDOY8R/Dani_2.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205371381-CK152T56RYA4ZUHND69K/Dani_4.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205188758-EQZ9YQUNJTIICA8YXTC2/Dani_5.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205435076-O0OM6TNQEAALK2CQ10R1/Dani_7.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654197596880-R9NXURG2OZW5UOBIH090/Diane_Phyllis.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205692160-BJR1KULU1UW6BMVM6WII/geneology_02.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205279438-TMI13F7NBK2P314RD2MP/Karen_03.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654205324696-H0RNLFJW20OOGE77C7J2/Library%2Bmeeting.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654197611988-HYOYPZXLHNL7PCEGCNKL/Nancy_02.jpg North Star https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1654197614635-YIO3CMEIVGB8ON00YWOE/Nancy.jpg North Star https://www.brynsilverman.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2024-09-28 https://www.brynsilverman.com/filmtv daily 1.0 2024-09-27 https://www.brynsilverman.com/commercial-work daily 0.75 2024-09-28 https://www.brynsilverman.com/expressionscreener daily 0.75 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/1634846398745-18ML908WKHXFN5HQN467/Christine+headshot.jpeg EOI screener - Christine Turner | Consulting Producer Christine Turner is an Oscar nominated filmmaker whose work has been called “Exquisitely tender” and “Thoughtful and enlightening” by The Washington Post. Her most recent film “The Barber of Little Rock” is nominated in the 2024 Oscars. Recently, her short film Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was featured as a New York Times Op-Doc. Previously, Christine directed the critically acclaimed documentary Homegoings, about a renowned funeral director in Harlem. Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, the film premiered at Documentary Fortnight at MoMA and aired nationally on the PBS series POV in 2013. In addition, Christine’s fiction shorts have screened at festivals widely including Sundance and Tribeca. Her film Lynching Postcards: Token of a Great Day, a production of Firelight Films in association with MTV Documentary Films, will be released in the fall of 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/93321d37-2d9d-47e3-85e0-0105eaa2ce22/Screenshot+2023-03-29+at+6.22.45+PM.png EOI screener - Short Synopsis After a routine follow up appointment, documentary filmmaker and thyroid cancer survivor, Bryn Silverman learns her treatment isn’t over. What begins as a solo investigation into the thoroughness of her healthcare, evolves into a larger re-imagining of the metrics we use to measure our well-being and the importance of community in healing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/8056f66e-dbcc-48ab-be08-0ff3e5cc088c/MRC.jpeg EOI screener - Matthew Robert Cooper | Composer Matthew Robert Cooper (aka Eluvium) is a composer from the Pacific Northwest known for his fusion of cinematic, ambient, classical, experimental, and electronic composition. His music has been featured in films, television, and shorts including work for HBO, Showtime, Universal, Apple TV+ and Sundance award winning films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/2215efe1-555d-49b4-a789-69ce4f87e5fb/IMG_0032.jpeg EOI screener - Naveen Chaubal | Producer Naveen has worked for AJ+, Vice News, and produced music videos for James Blake and Frank Ocean. He’s a fellow of Film Independent's Project: Involve and Fast Track programs. His short film “Pinball” screened at the DGA and the Speed Art Museum and premiered online on NoBudge.com and won Audience Choice. He co-shot and co-produced Tomorrow We Disappear, a feature documentary that chronicles the last days of the Kathputli colony. A community hidden in the alleyways of New Delhi full of magicians, acrobats and puppeteers approaches their looming eviction to make way for a modern skyscraper. The film premiered at Tribeca and screened at Hot Docs and CPH:DOX, and Salem Film Fest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59d6ab8fbce176673212b266/73bde84c-bf90-40c6-82a4-de8453384464/Bryn_Silverman_headshot+jpg.jpg EOI screener - Bryn Silverman | Director Bryn was a story producer on Amend: The Fight for America, a six part Netflix documentary series about the impact of the 14th Amendment. Recently she was a field producer on Paula Eiselt’s Under G-d (Sundance, 2023) and an additional 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 also an additional editor on the acclaimed 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.