Marjolaine Grappe is an independent documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and a current MIT Open Documentary Lab fellow where she is exploring the intersection of film, investigative journalism and video games. Her work on the financing of North Korea's nuclear weapons All The Dictator’s Men (which had 30 million online viewers) was awarded the 2018 Albert Londres Prize, the highest French journalistic distinction. Her feature documentary debut The Color of Justice, about justice in the death of New Yorker Eric Garner, premiered at CPH:DOX in 2019. She started her career in Washington DC as a producer covering the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election, and went on to work in Asia asa foreign correspondent reporting from India (2009-2012) and China (2012-2016). She has directed several award-winning feature-length journalism investigations including Guantanamo Limbo and a series of investigative reports about China's One-Child Policy. Her work has been supported by the Catapult Film Fund, the WIF Sundance Financing Intensive, IDA, Film Independent, SFFILM, SFFILM Invest, Field of Vision, the Miller/Packan Documentary Fund, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, the CNC (Centre National duCinéma), the PROCIREP, the SCAM Brouillon d’un Rêve Grant and the Lagardère Foundation.
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Amanda Pike
Amanda Pike is an Emmy, Peabody and duPont Award-winning journalist and the Director of Film and TV at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Recent feature films she’s produced include the Netflix original documentary Victim/Suspect, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, and The Grab, which debuted opening night of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and is slated to premiere in theaters and online this June. She executive produced the Oscar-nominated short documentary Heroin(e) for Netflix. Before joining CIR, she spent several years reporting around the world with a camera in hand.
Marjolaine Grappe, Director
Amanda Pike, Producer