Susan Margolin

Susan Margolin is a pioneer of digital film distribution and a dedicated creator and supporter of independent film and television with over 25+ years’ experience.  She founded New Video, a leading global force in independent home entertainment.  New Video’s library of films, television and web content, featured programming from leading brands including A+E, History Channel, Monty Python, Thames Television, Sundance Institute, Tribeca films, Major League Baseball and Scholastic, amongst others. Through Docurama Films, a subsidiary of New Video, Margolin championed more than 400 award-winning non-fiction films, from Academy Award nominees including Kirby Dick’s and Amy Ziering’s The Invisible War, Joe Berlinger’s Paradise Lost trilogy, Danfung Dennis’ Hell and Back Again, Nancy Buirski’s The Loving Story to D.A. Pennebaker’s Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back. New Video/Docurama Films became the largest independent digital aggregation company in North America.    Margolin sold New Video/Docurama Films to Cinedigm (now Cineverse) in 2012. As Co-President of Cinedigm Entertainment Group, Margolin released many critically acclaimed independent films including Daniel Destin Crettin’s groundbreaking Short Term 12. 

In 2016 Margolin launched St. Marks Productions LLC, a production and distribution services company. She recently produced Nancy Buirski’s 2024 Oscar shortlisted Desperate Souls, Dark City, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy (Turner Classic Movies) and Trish Adlesic’s feature documentary A Tree of Life (HBO) about the 2018 shooting at A Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, as well as Buirski’s 2021 film entitled A Crime on The Bayou (Starz).  She produced Alexandra Codina’s feature documentary, Paper Children, for YouTube Originals, Buirski’s critically acclaimed feature documentary, The Rape of Recy Taylor (Starz), and Cheryl Miller Houser documentary feature Generation Startup (Executive Producer). She is an Executive Producer of Judith Helfand’s Love and Stuff, and of Zeva Oelbaum’s and Sabine Krayenbuhl’s Obsessed with Light. Margolin serves on the Board of Directors of Chicken & Egg Pictures and Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and on the Advisory Board of New York Women in Film and Television, the Documentary Producers Alliance, and the Hamptons DocFest, and she served on the board of BAFTA New York for over a decade.  She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the Producers Guild of America (PGA), and the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA).