Rory Kennedy is an Academy Award-nominated and Primetime Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker who has directed and produced more than thirty films. Credits include Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (Netflix), Oscar-nominated Last Days in Vietnam (PBS American Experience), Ethel (HBO), Emmy-winning Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (#1 Netflix film in its release week), and the HBO series The Synanon Fix (2024 Sundance). Her work has aired on Netflix, HBO, National Geographic, Hulu, and PBS. She has served two terms as a Governor of AMPAS and founded the Climate Emergency Fund. In February 2024 she signed with Moxie Pictures for global commercial and branded-content representation, after prior commercial representation by Nonfiction Unlimited. Evidenced brand work includes The Evolution of Barbie for Mattel—a behind-the-scenes mini-documentary on the creation of more diverse Barbie dolls, identified by Adweek as her first commercial—and a series of spots for Verizon on the nation’s digital divide. Both extend her interview-driven, docu-style approach into branded content. She is based outside Los Angeles.