Jennifer Galvin
(She/Her)
Director, Producerreelblue, LLC
Full Bio
Dr. Jennifer Galvin is a public health and environmental scientist turned prized filmmaker. In 2006, she founded reelblue, an independent production company based in New York. Her feature directorial debut Free Swim (2009) and Eating the Ocean (2011) traveled the globe to reduce youth drowning, promote diversity in water sports, ignite community coastal conservation, and connect ocean and human health. She received the 2014 GOOD 100 honor, representing the vanguard of artists, activists, and innovators from over 35 countries making creative impact. Her award-winning feature The Memory of Fish (2016) was a Wildscreen Panda Award nominee and named to ‘The Definitive List of River Movies’ by American Rivers. With Radical Media she produced The Antidote (2020), a feature film exploring kindness in America, and with Ad Council Tuskegee Legacy Stories (2021), a 6-part documentary campaign featuring descendants of the USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee to build back trust in medicine.