Kim A. Snyder
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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.
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Kim earned a master's degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and resides in New York City.
Known for
Newtown
January 24, 2016
Trevor
January 20, 1994
Death by Numbers
October 5, 2024
Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane
September 28, 2018
The Librarians
September 26, 2025
I Remember Me
October 11, 2000
The West Side Waltz
November 23, 1995
Us Kids
January 23, 2020
Alone No Love
December 31, 2007
Welcome to Shelbyville
May 24, 2011
Crossing Midnight
March 28, 2009
First They Came for My College
September 17, 2026
Behind the camera13
- 2026First They Came for My College Executive Producer
- 2025The Librarians Director, Producer
- 2024Death by Numbers Director, Producer
- 2020Us Kids Director, Producer
- 2018Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane Director, Producer
- 2016Newtown Director
- 2011Welcome to Shelbyville Director
- 2009Crossing Midnight Director, Producer
- 2007Alone No Love Director
- 2000I Remember Me