Bianca Giaever

Bianca Giaever is an independent filmmaker and radio journalist. Her recent short documentary STALIN BOYS (co-directed with Ora DeKornfeld) won an audience award and special jury award at SXSW. Her TV pilot, FREE HELP, will be premiering at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival. Her stories have appeared on This American Life, Radiolab, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is the creator and host of "Constellation Prize," a podcast distributed by The Believer magazine, and a former producer on The New York Times' audio team, where she produced and occasionally hosted episodes of "The Daily." In 2013, her college short film, "the Scared is scared," was named "Web Video of the Year" by USA Today. She is the winner of a Daytime Emmy and a Webby award and recently completed a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism at Harvard University.