Karla Murthy

Karla Murthy is an Emmy Award-nominated producer, and the director of the new documentary short Love, Jamie, which is currently streaming on American Masters. In 2020, she directed the documentary The Place That Makes Us, about a new generation rebuilding home in Youngstown, Ohio. She began her career working for the veteran journalist Bill Moyers, and has been a producer, cameraperson and correspondent for various PBS news magazines over the last 15 years. Her work was cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as “compelling, informative and compassionate.” Karla is of Filipino and South Asian descent. She graduated from Oberlin College, is an alum of the Third World Newsreel Workshop and the Documentary Institute at Antioch College in Ohio. She is currently completing a feature documentary inspired by her father called The Gas Station Attendant, a co-production with ITVS and Firelight Media that will be out next year.