MERYL GOLDSMITH is a Primetime Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Her recent work includes producing LOVE, GILDA (CNN/Magnolia Pictures), a feature documentary about comedy legend Gilda Radner; the film had its premiere as the opening-night feature of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, had a nationwide, extended theatrical run, and had its broadcast debut on CNN, where it garnered the top spot in cable news ratings and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Goldsmith was a co-executive producer of heralded drama A WOMAN, A PART (Strand, 2017), which stars Maggie Siff and holds a “90% Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes; and the mystery/horror DON'T LEAVE HOME (Good Deed Entertainment/Cranked Up Films, 2018), which IndieWire praised as “Get Out with Catholic guilt in the Irish countryside.” She was co-executive producer of the creative dog grooming documentary, WELL GROOMED (HBO, 2019), a jury award nominee at SXSW. She executive produced a short documentary, SNOWY (Time, 2021), that premiered at Sundance and earned a Critics Choice Documentary Awards nomination. She is co-executive producer of drama STAY AWAKE, starring Chrissy Metz, that premiered at Berlinale 2022 and plays at select theaters in summer 2023.
Goldsmith’s feature debut as director, THE SYNDROME (Entertainment Studios/Freestyle Digital Media), premiered at Twin Cities Film Fest, saw wide release in 2016, and garnered praise as an “excellent” and “must see” film (OC Weekly) with “a subject that proves to be urgent, fascinating and high-stakes” (LA Times) that’s “scary food for thought” (Hollywood Reporter).
Meryl has been a guest speaker at film festivals, organizations and various events around the country. She is a University of Michigan alumna where she studied film.