Beth Murphy

Beth Murphy heads GroundTruth Films, telling under-documented stories by producing award-winning films, digital media, and targeted public education campaigns. She founded the film and media company Principle Pictures, and she believes in the power of storytelling to understand our world and begin to make it a better place. Her work as producer, director, journalist, writer, and photographer focuses on human rights, equality and justice, and she is most driven to tell stories of those who are shining a light in some of the darkest corners of our world. Murphy has directed and produced nearly 20 documentary films (including the features “Beyond Belief,” “The List” and “What Tomorrow Brings”) that have screened at film festivals and aired on television networks globally. Her work as a multimedia producer, impact campaign director and author raises awareness and promotes action for issues and causes that demand social change.

A lens on hope from Rwanda to Haiti

Mussa Uwitonze is standing on the patio outside the Worldwide Orphans office in Kenscoff, Haiti. Behind him, bamboo...

Finding Humanity: A Journey in Post-Genocide Rwanda

This year, as the world remembers the 25th anniversary of Rwanda’s genocide and honors one million people who...

Season 6 |Episode 5

Whatever happened to Zika?

Before Hurricane Maria, the Zika crisis was already pushing Puerto Rico’s health care system to the limit. Then...

Asthma Alley – The Film Impact Campaign

THE FILM: A young Latina girl living in New York's South Bronx finds hope in music when poor...

"I was raised to give a damn." —Barbara Pierce Bush, Skoll Awardee. (Courtesy of Skoll Foundation)

Restore your faith in humanity with these stories from the Skoll World Forum

"Shutting ourselves off from those we see as other erodes our humanity." —Sally Osberg, President and CEO of...

Humanity Lost, Humanity Found: 25 Years After Rwanda’s Genocide

Humanity Lost, Humanity Found: 25 Years After Rwanda’s Genocide: Introduction (Photo by Beth Murphy/GroundTruth) KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda’s...

Hafizallah and his two daughters, Maryam, 23, and Goldasta, 24, live in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountain valley. (Photo via GroundTruth Films)

Coping with drought

Coping with drought: How girls' education is helping an Afghan family survive Click the play button on the...

The world’s human rights movement would look very different ‘if it weren’t for women’

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Golden butterflies are fluttering across this town. They’re the symbol of Movies that Matter,...

Anna Fierst, the great-granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt (center), holds up a sign that says, "Together We Stand." (Photo by Beth Murphy/GroundTruth)

Eleanor Roosevelt’s great-granddaughter walked in the Women’s March

Anna Fierst, 61, woke up early Saturday in Washington, D.C. with a fire in her chest – the...

A mother, self-identifying as a "third-generation suffragette," helps her daughter prepare for the Women's March on Washington in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Beth Murphy/GroundTruth Films)

Video: A mother and daughter explain why they march

The women's democratic national committee in DC was a gathering place today for people to prepare for tomorrow's Women's...

The Women's March on Washington will take place this Saturday, Jan. 20, 2017 in Washington, D.C. Sister marches will also be held in other major U.S. cities as well as various countries around the world. (Photo by Tom Thai/Flickr User)

Women’s March is ‘a sign’ of disconnect between politicians and people

Maina Kiai is the United Nations special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly. (Photo by...

THANK YOU TO OUR LEADERSHIP SUPPORTERS

Learn more about sponsoring GroundTruth and Report for America