ABOUT
Meryl Goldsmith
Director, Producer, Executive Producer
MERYL GOLDSMITH is a Primetime Emmy-nominated filmmaker. Her recent work includes producing and executive producing LOVE, GILDA (CNN/Magnolia Pictures), a feature documentary about comedy legend Gilda Radner; the film had its premiere as the opening-night feature of the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, had a nationwide, extended theatrical run, and had its broadcast debut on CNN, where it garnered the top spot in cable news ratings and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations.
Goldsmith was a co-executive producer of heralded drama A WOMAN, A PART (2017) picked up by SHOWTIME, which stars Maggie Siff; and STAY AWAKE starring Chrissy Metz that premiered at Berlinale in 2022. She also co-executive produced the mystery/horror DON'T LEAVE HOME (2018).
She was co-executive producer of the documentary, WELL GROOMED (2019), a jury award nominee at SXSW that premiered on HBO. She executive produced a short documentary, SNOWY (2021), that premiered at Sundance, earned a Critics Choice Documentary Awards nomination and picked up by TIME.
Goldsmith’s feature debut as director and producer, THE SYNDROME (2016), saw wide release in 2016, and garnered praise as an “excellent” and “must see” film (OC Weekly) that’s “astonishing” (Culturefly) and “scary food for thought” (The Hollywood Reporter).
Meryl has been a guest speaker at film festivals, organizations and various events around the country. She is a University of Michigan alumna and was raised in the suburbs of Detroit.
Susan Goldsmith
Investigative Reporter, Writer, Producer
Susan Goldsmith is a career, national-award winning investigative reporter who has worked for The Oregonian, New Times LA, LA Daily News and East Bay Express. She has won numerous state, local and national journalism awards, including a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism, an honor for distinguished coverage of disadvantaged children and families. She has covered criminal justice issues for nearly 30 years. She wrote and produced the documentary, THE SYNDROME, which was released on demand everywhere and garnered praise as an “excellent” and “must see” film (OC Weekly) that’s “smartly reported” (Village Voice) and “scary food for thought” (The Hollywood Reporter).
For New Times LA, Goldsmith reported extensively on the federal prosecution of the Mexican Mafia in California prisons in “The Protege” and “Federal Bureau of Violence”. She wrote “Judge Dread” which helped expose a criminal court judge who forced a defendant to sleep with him in exchange for judicial leniency, and he was later convicted. With “The Firm” she broke the story that one of LA’s most prestigious law firms was using private in-house investigators to illegally spy on litigation opponents by obtaining their confidential health and financial records.
At The Oregonian, Goldsmith did a year-long investigation into the Brad Holbrook child molestation case in Oregon which led to an appellate law firm taking up Holbrook’s appeal pro bono and in 2017, he was exonerated. She also exposed the case of two 12-year-old boys in Oregon who were charged with five felony sex abuse counts each for swatting the butts of girls in their middle school hallway. The story caused a national uproar and prompted readers to send the boys $60,000 to fund their defense. The district attorney’s office eventually dropped all the charges. Her reporting on two different child abuse cases resulted in the state legislature passing two laws to better protect children in foster care and the Oregon governor issuing a moratorium on sending children in the state’s foster care abroad.
Nina Guzman
Associate Producer, Production/Office Assistant
Nina Guzman is an LA-based producer, writer and editor. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Film and Television Production Program, where she received her Masters in Fine Arts with a focus on Comedic Development. She was awarded the Fox Fellowship for the buddy comedy, THE TRIP (2021), that she wrote and produced as her thesis. Guzman recently was the consulting editor for BITCH ASS (2022): the slasher comedy, which stars Tony Todd, that premiered at South by Southwest; and is the assistant editor for White Horse Pictures’ upcoming documentary, SHARI & LAMB CHOP.
In 2019 she associate produced the Primetime-Emmy nominated documentary, LOVE, GILDA, about the legendary comedienne, Gilda Radner. The film opened the Tribeca Film Festival, and featured Amy Poehler, Chevy Chase and Maya Rudolph. She helped write and produce six television shows a week as the General Manager of Marquette University Television, and was nominated for a Chicago-Emmy for the controversial documentary series, SPORTS.EDU: BATTLE OF THE SEXES.
For Reset Films, she is a writer, associate producer, assistant editor, PA, and office assistant.