Susan Margolin (she/her)  is a producer and pioneer of digital film distribution with 25+ years’ experience in independent film and media.  She co-founded distributor New Video/Docurama Films (1992) and ran the company until it was sold to Cinedigm (2012). She distributed over 400 critically acclaimed documentaries, including Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering’s The Invisible War and Pennebaker’s Dont Look Back. In 2016 Margolin launched St. Marks Productions and has produced, and executive produced several award-winning feature documentaries including Nancy Buirski’s Desperate Souls Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (Zeitgeist/Kino Lorber) which was shortlisted for an Academy Award, Billy Shebar’s Monk in Pieces (premiered at Berlinale ’25) and Trish Adlesic’s A Tree of Life: The Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting (HBO).   She also produced Buirski's A Crime on the Bayou and The Rape of Recy Taylor, and Alexandra Codina’s Paper Children (YouTube Originals), and executive produced Sabine Krayenbuhl and Zeva Oelbaum’s Loie Fuller: Obsessed with Light, Judith Helfand’s Love & Stuff and Cheryl Houser and Cynthia Wade’s Generation Startup. Margolin serves on the board of Chicken & Egg Films and Manhattan Neighborhood Network, on the Advisory Boards of New York Women in Film and Television and the DPA. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and the Producers Guild of America (PGA). She is a graduate of Brown University.