Executive Director, Principle Pictures

Beth Murphy

Beth Murphy is Executive Director, Principle Pictures, telling under-documented stories by producing award-winning films, digital media, and targeted public education campaigns. She founded the film and media company, 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.

Columns

Safer in Rwanda: Other Countries Are Taking COVID-19 Seriously, and It Shows

As an American documentary filmmaker on location in Rwanda, I saw what it takes to successfully flatten the...

Oct 29, 2020

Faith

Women in Muslim countries prepare for ‘least, most’ Ramadan

Three Muslim women — from Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine — reflect on how coronavirus hardships reinforce the true...

Apr 23, 2020

Health

Amid COVID-19 uncertainty, Rwanda comes together (virtually) to remember the genocide

Nothing will keep Rwanda from remembering the atrocities that transpired there 26 years ago. But in the age...

Apr 08, 2020

Feature Films

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...

May 31, 2019

Video

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...

Jan 25, 2019

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...

Nov 08, 2018

Films

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...

Sep 21, 2018

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

Rights

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...

Apr 13, 2018

Video

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...

Apr 03, 2018

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

Short Films

Coping with drought

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

Apr 25, 2017

Americas

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,...

Mar 30, 2017

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