Megan Griffiths

Megan Griffiths

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Megan Griffiths

Megan Griffiths is a prolific filmmaker whose work has premiered at film festivals such as Toronto, Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca. She has directed television shows for HBO, EPIX, TNT, Hulu, USA, Fox, Netflix, and served as the producing director for season two of Amazon’s “The Summer I Turned Pretty.”

Griffiths’ feature film work includes: YEAR OF THE FOX (starring Sarah Jeffery, Jane Adams, and Balthazar Getty), I’LL SHOW YOU MINE (Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown), SADIE (Melanie Lynskey, Sophia Mitri Schloss, and Tony Hale), THE NIGHT STALKER (Lou Diamond Phillips and Bellamy Young), LUCKY THEM (Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Johnny Depp), EDEN (Jamie Chung, Beau Bridges, and Matt O’Leary), THE OFF HOURS (Amy Seimetz, Scoot McNairy), and FIRST AID FOR CHOKING. She is currently directing (alongside Mindie Lind) VIEW FROM THE FLOOR, a feature-length animated documentary about disability. The short version of this project premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed by The New York Times for their Op-Docs section.

Griffiths is a member of the director’s branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences and the president of the board of Northwest Film Forum. Griffiths has received the Stranger Genius Award, the Seattle Mayor’s Award for Film, been named a City Arts Film Artist of the Year, and in 2025 was awarded a Trailblazer Award for the work she has done across her career to advance filmmaking in the Pacific Northwest.