Kim Snyder is an award-winning documentary filmmaker who most recently co-founded the BeCause Foundation to produce a series of socially conscious documentaries and inspire philanthropy through the power of film. The first three films of the BeCause series (Alone No Love, One Bridge to the Next, Crossing Midnight) have won numerous festival awards and have been the catalyst for campaigns that have significantly furthered the work of the social innovators they highlight. Kim has also been selected to be part of the US State Department’s 2009 American Documentary Showcase in which she will be a “citizen ambassador” to a number of designated countries. Her current film is set in America’s rural South, where on the eve of the recent election, a town deals with issues of immigrant integration and reckons with its segregated past.

Kim directed and produced the award-winning documentary I Remember Me, which won numerous festival awards and was distributed theatrically in the U.S. by Zeitgeist Films. Her work includes numerous short documentaries as well as writer for Variety Magazine. Kim also worked as media producer for the Hamptons International Film Festival, producing commercials, trailers, and promotional media.

In 1994, Kim associate produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor, directed and produced by Peggy Rajski, which became the cornerstone of The Trevor Project, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to suicide prevention among gay youth. Kim served on the admissions review committee for NYU’s Graduate Film Program, and has been a producer’s rep for several critically acclaimed foreign films including Crows (New Yorker Films) directed by Dorota Kedzierzawska. Kim graduated with a Masters in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.