Bridgette Cyr is a video journalist, documentary filmmaker, and audio producer. 

Film collaborations have taken her to a Q-Anon rally in Tampa, Florida; the bedroom of a revenge porn victim; the recording studio of feminist hip hop artists in Havana, Cuba; and to the hideout of a North Carolina woman as she sought refuge in sanctuary, fearful of deportation. 

As of late, her work has a focus on access to education, healthcare, and LGBTQIA+ rights in the rapidly evolving American South. 

She is the Director of Photography and Producer for WAITING FOR Q, a short experimental film showcasing a Q Anonymous rally in Tampa, Florida in February 2020. She is the Director of Photography and Associate Producer for SANTUARIO, a short documentary film following Juana Ortega, a grandmother who faced deportation and took refuge in a North Carolina Church. SANTUARIO 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). The film screened at festivals around the country and was broadcast on UNC-TV’s program, Reel South, and Al Jazeera’s Witness program. 

She was among 12 selected for the Investigative Reporting Workshop for Filmmakers at UC Berkeley in 2018. Her video work has earned accolades at the Online Journalism Awards as well as the College Photographer of the Year awards. Since August 2021, she has 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, land owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. As of October 2023, the tour has 2 counties remaining.

At the height of the pandemic 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. Before returning to school she was the Artist Services Coordinator at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Currently, she is in production on a decade-long film focused on LGBTQIA+ rights in the American South.