Lori Silverbush

Lori Silverbush is an independent director and screenwriter who uses fiction and non-fiction film to ignite dialogue about critical issues of our day. Silverbush’s work has appeared theatrically, on television, and online in the U.S. and abroad, and premiered at the Sundance, Toronto, Berlin and Tribeca Film Festivals. Silverbush and her films been featured in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Vanity Fair, Filmmaker Magazine, Time Magazine and many others. Silverbush was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2005. The New York Times called Silverbush’s first fiction film, On the Outs, “shockingly fresh” in their July 2005 review. New York Newsday dubbed the film, about young women in juvenile jail, “a small miracle” and likened it to the films of legendary directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. Silverbush’s most recent documentary, A Place at the Table, produced by Participant Media, premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures in March of 2013. A Place at the Table examines the shocking paradox of hunger in the wealthiest nation on earth. The film features original music by Grammy- and Oscar-winning producer/composer T Bone Burnett and Grammy award winning indie-folk duo The Civil Wars. Bill Moyers called A Place at the Table “one of the best documentaries I’ve seen in years.” Since its release, Silverbush has used the film as a launch-pad for a national movement for food justice, and become a leading voice advocating for citizen activism and food policy reform as linchpins of a just society. Silverbush is currently developing film and television projects that explore immigrant and women’s roles in shaping our national identity, and is developing a bi-lingual fiction series focused on the threat to ethical journalism in the post-truth era. Silverbush received her Master’s Degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and is a graduate of the American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, with a B.S. in Communications. Silverbush is a member of the Director’s Guild of America, the Writer’s Guild of America, East, and the Independent Feature Project. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.