Producer/Director/Writer
Karin Hayes
Karin Hayes is the recipient of the duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence
in broadcast journalism for The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/Cinemax), co-directed and produced with Victoria Bruce; WE'RE NOT BROKE, (Sundance Film Festival); Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship winner of the Target® Filmmaker Award (PBS/Maryland Public Television); and Held Hostage in Colombia, excerpted by CBS 60 Minutes II (History and SundanceTV). Hayes also co-authored the book Hostage Nation (Knopf 2010) with Bruce.
Hayes has worked on others' documentary films and series including Jason DaSilva's New York Times Op-Doc Mapping the Disability Trap, When We Walk, and the Emmy-Award winning When I Walk. Paul Rachman's Sony Pictures Classics documentary American Hardcore: the history of American punk rock from 1980-1986. Brian Knappenberger's Participant Media series Truth & Power. Hayes has worked on documentaries for PBS, National Geographic Channel, the Travel Channel, the Discovery Channel, and with The Cronkite Ward Company for TLC. Prior to filmmaking, she attended the University of Guadalajara in Mexico, Universidad de Costa Rica, and worked at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Hayes graduated from UCLA with a degree in World Arts and Cultures, with a theater emphasis.
Producer/Director/Author
Victoria Bruce
Currently working at Victoria Bruce Media Strategies.
Victoria Bruce is the recipient of the duPont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism for The Kidnapping of Ingrid Betancourt (HBO/Cinemax); co-directed and produced with Karin Hayes. Bruce also co-produced and directed We're Not Broke (Sundance Film Festival); Pip & Zastrow: An American Friendship (PBS / Maryland Public Television); and Held Hostage in Colombia, which was excerpted on CBS 60 Minutes II (History and SundanceTV).
Bruce is an author with a background in science.
Her books include: Inspector Oldfield and the Black Hand Society: America's Original Gangsters and the U.S. Postal Detective Who Brought Them to Justice
Sellout: How Washington gave away America’s Technological Soul, and One Man’s Fight to Bring it Home (Bloomsbury 2017)
Hostage Nation (co-authored with Hayes, Knopf 2010)
No Apparent Danger about a volcanic disaster in Colombia (HarperCollins 2001).
Bruce has appeared as an expert geologist in television documentaries including Discovery Channel’s, Pompeii: The Last Day. Bruce holds a Master’s degree in Geology from the University of California, Riverside.
