Karla Murthy

Karla Murthy is a director and Emmy-nominated producer. She began her career working as a producer, shooter and correspondent for several news programs on PBS. Her award-winning work was described in the Columbia Journalism Review as “compelling, informative and compassionate.” Her directorial debut, the feature documentary The Place That Makes Us, screened at numerous film festivals and premiered on the acclaimed series America ReFramed. Most recently, she directed and edited the short film Love, Jamie about a transgender artist incarcerated in Texas which premiered at OUTFEST LA and won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Documentary Short, and was called “one of the best short documentaries” by Texas Monthly. The film is available on PBS American Masters.

Karla is of Filipino and South Asian descent and grew up near Houston, Texas and graduated from Oberlin College. Her work has been supported by Women Make Movies, the New York State Council of the Arts, Vital Projects Fund, the Schumann Foundation, the Firelight Media Residency at Slough Farm on Martha’s Vineyard, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Chimaera, and Yaddo artist residency.