Filmmakers
KIM A SNYDER’S most recent film Death By Numbers was Oscar-nominated for Best Short Documentary and garnered 2024 Montclair Film Festival Best Short Documentary and Honorable Mention Jury Award from Doc NYC. Her most recent feature documentary The Librarians (PBS / Independent Lens) premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and is an official selection at numerous festivals nationwide. Prior films include Us Kids premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, followed by SXSW, Sheffield, and Full Frame, where it received the Kathleen Edwards Bryan Human Rights Award and 14 subsequent festival awards. Prior she directed the Peabody award-winning documentary Newtown, which also premiered in the US Competition at Sundance 2016. Her short documentary Lessons From a School Shooting (2018 Netflix Original, 2018 Tribeca Best Short Documentary). Snyder’s other works include the feature documentary, Welcome to Shelbyville, nationally broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2011, and over a dozen short documentaries. Kim’s award-winning directorial debut feature documentary, I Remember Me was theatrically distributed by Zeitgeist Films. In 1994, she Associate Produced the Academy Award-winning short film Trevor, which spawned The Trevor Project, a leading national not-for-profit addressing LGBTQ teen suicide. Kim graduated with a Masters in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and resides in New York City.
Janique L Robillard | Producer
JANIQUE L. ROBILLARD is a documentary filmmaker and creative producer. Recent producing credits include two films with Peabody Award-winning filmmaker Kim A. Snyder and producing partner Maria Cuomo Cole – Death By Numbers, which is nominated for the 2025 Academy Awards: Best Documentary Short Film, and The Librarians (PBS/Independent Lens) which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Her freelance work includes live action and animated content, broadcast commercials for Nike, Google, and other major brands and music videos for artists including Lauren Flax, Bob Mould, and First Aid Kit. Janique actively seeks opportunities to elevate marginalized communities in film, evidenced in her short film 1000 Times (a women’s MMA documentary) and on-going collaboration with Free Body Project, including their short From There To Here. Previous credits include Associate Producer for director Jeremiah Zagar’s The Fix docu-series (Roku, 2022), and has developed numerous documentary films and series for acclaimed directors like Lina Plioplyte and clients including Netflix. Janique earned her B.S. from S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University and her M.F.A at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Maria Cuomo Cole | Producer
MARIA CUOMO COLE is the Peabody and Emmy award winning producer recognized for making social impact on highly relevant issues with compelling artful storytelling. She has most recently produced the Academy Award nominated Death by Numbers documentary short film, The Librarians (Sundance 2025, PBS/Independent Lens) feature documentary, and Us Kids (Sundance 2025) feature documentary — all in collaboration with Director / Producer Kim A. Snyder. The film team partnered on Lessons from A School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane and Newtown, which premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, also directed by Kim A. Snyder. In 2015, she executive produced The Hunting Ground, directed by Kirby Dick, which investigates the epidemic of sexual assaults on college campuses. This Emmy and Peabody Award-winning film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, aired on CNN and was released on Netflix in 2016. Cuomo Cole worked with the same team as an executive producer of the 2014 Oscar-nominated, The Invisible War, about the epidemic of rape and sexual violence in the U.S. military and served as a catalyst for federal policy reforms. Cuomo Cole’s 2010 documentary, Living for 32, about the tragic gun shooting on the Virginia Tech University Campus, was short-listed for an Academy Award®, aired on Showtime and was distributed by BBC Worldwide. The film achieved significant social impact at screenings in numerous festivals, and on The National College Campaign to End Gun Violence.
Jana Edelbaum | Producer
Jana Edelbaum is an Emmy Award-winning producer and founder of Ideal Partners. Her latest film, Beyond Utopia, won the 2023 Sundance Audience Award and was released worldwide in October. Previous work includes: House of Z; Strange Weather; Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete, and Idina Menzel: Which Way to the Stage?.She is currently producing the upcoming Alvin Ailey biographical feature (Barry Jenkins, Fox Searchlight) and the documentary film, Swifties. She is the co-founder of the British Virgin Island Film Festival with Virgin and Sundance. Edelbaum lives in New York with her husband and three children. She is a graduate of Brown University and spent several years as an investment banker in London prior to moving into film. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, involved with Mt. Sinai hospital, is an active member of the NY Women’s collective, and is passionate about the medium of film as a social change agent.