Bess Kargman has created timely, socially and politically relevant stories for numerous media outlets including National Public Radio, The Washington Post and NBC Olympics. She holds degrees from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (where she caught the documentary bug) and Amherst College, where she majored in Fine Arts and played varsity ice hockey. Kargman’s award-winning debut feature, First Position (2012) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews and has since been released theatrically around the world. Kargman recently moved from New York City to Los Angeles to direct new projects in documentary and narrative film.
