Bridgette Cyr is an award winning filmmaker, photographer, and audio producer based in Richmond, Virginia. 

She was a 2024 fellow with the Southern Producers Lab with the New Orleans Film Society and was among 12 selected for the Investigative Reporting Workshop for Filmmakers at UC Berkeley in 2018. Film collaborations have screened at festivals around the country including Santuario, a short documentary film following a grandmother who faced deportation and took refuge in a North Carolina church. The film won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short at the New Orleans Film Festival (2018) and Tribeca Institute’s IF/Then Short Documentary grant (2017). 

She is currently producing Meant to be Maddie, a feature documentary film following a North Carolina family over the course of a decade and was a Athena Film Festival Pitch participant in 2024 at Barnard College.

She has created video work for a multitude of clients such as The Ford Foundation, The Croatan Institute, PBS Newshour, and her work has earned accolades at the Online Journalism Awards. From 2021 to 2024, she collaborated with Education NC and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina on a state-wide tour documenting the BCBS Executive Team, visiting all 100 counties and the Qualla Boundary, home to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

She was the editor of Chicken Country for Living Downstream, an environmental justice podcast for Northern California Public Media. This audio work covering community health workers in rural North Carolina was recognized at the Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards (2021). In addition to the audio piece she created a companion multimedia package. She has also edited The Brain Architects, a podcast from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. In addition, she produced and edited Across the Street, a podcast for medical residents at Duke University specializing in Veteran healthcare, including a 5-part series covering medical issues soldiers develop years after serving in wars ranging from the Korean War to Operation Enduring Freedom. 

She graduated with a Master’s in Visual Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she was a Roy H. Park Fellow. Most recently she was the Artist Services Coordinator at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.