Person
Kim A. Snyder
Directing
Biography
Kim A. Snyder is an Academy Award® nominee and Peabody Award-winning Director / Producer whose latest feature, THE LIBRARIANS, premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and will release globally in late 2025. Her Oscar-nominated short DEATH BY NUMBERS, co-created with gun-violence survivor Sam Fuentes, has won multiple awards. Snyder’s acclaimed films include US KIDS (Sundance 2020), LESSONS FROM A SCHOOL SHOOTING (Netflix Original), and NEWTOWN (Sundance 2016, Peabody Award, PBS). Her earlier work includes WELCOME TO SHELBYVILLE (PBS) and I REMEMBER ME (Zeitgeist Films). She also associate produced the Oscar-winning short TREVOR, which spawned The Trevor Project. Snyder holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS and lives in New York City.
Known for
First They Came for My College
Executive Producer
The Librarians
Director
The West Side Waltz
Co-Producer
Death by Numbers
Director
Trevor
Associate Producer
Alone No Love
Director
Welcome to Shelbyville
Director
I Remember Me
Self
Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane
Director
Newtown
Director
Filmography
- 2026First They Came for My CollegeExecutive Producer
- 2025The LibrariansDirector
- 2024Death by NumbersDirector
- 2020Us KidsDirector
- 2018Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from DunblaneDirector
- 2016NewtownDirector
- 2011Welcome to ShelbyvilleDirector
- 2009Crossing MidnightDirector
- 2007Alone No LoveDirector
- 2000I Remember MeSelf
- 1995The West Side WaltzCo-Producer
- 1994TrevorAssociate Producer
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