Kim A. Snyder is an American filmmaker and producer, an Academy Award nominee and Peabody Award winner, known for her work on documentaries about difficult social issues.

Her professional path began far from cinema, in international trade, but the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 drew her into promoting Eastern European cinema in the United States — a path that gradually brought her closer to filmmaking, first as a curator and representative of independent films, and later as an associate producer.

She made her directorial debut in 2000 with “I Remember Me,” and in 2007 co-founded the BeCause Foundation, dedicated to socially conscious short documentaries. Over the course of her career, she has become especially recognised for films portraying communities affected by tragedy and violence.

More recently, she directed the short film “Death by Numbers,” nominated for the Academy Award in 2025, and “The Librarians” (2025), which received more than 20 festival awards before premiering on PBS in early 2026.