Beth Murphy is founder of Principle Pictures, a company focused on creating documentary films, impact campaigns and news reports about pressing human rights issues globally; and director of GroundTruth Films at The GroundTruth Project, where she is training and mentoring the next generation of foreign correspondents and filmmakers. She has directed and produced nearly 20 films that have played at top-tier festivals and been broadcast globally, including the feature documentaries Beyond Belief and The List, which focused on the human consequences of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Beth is a blogger for Huffington Post and has directed and produced for New York Times Op-Docs. Her photography found international acclaim with the series "To Boston. From Kabul. With Love." She is a former fellow at Boston University's Institute for Iraqi Studies, and has taught courses in covering international crises, media ethics and documentary filmmaking at Suffolk University and American University Paris. She earned her master's degree in international relations and international communications at Boston University and studied filmmaking at George Washington University's Documentary Center.
Beth's adaptation of What Tomorrow Brings the multimedia project Foreverstan was recently recognized with an Edward R. Murrow Award. She is the author of Fighting for Our Future (McGraw Hill, 2002), a companion book to her film of the same title. The book, about women under 40 with breast cancer, was heralded by the Library Journal as doing the cancer community "a vital service." She lives in Cape Cod, Mass., with her husband and daughter.