Karla Murthy

Karla Murthy is an Emmy Award-nominated producer whose latest feature documentary, The Gas Station Attendant, has its world premiere at the Sheffield DocFest on June 19. She previously directed and produced the 2020 feature doc The Place That Makes Us, about a new generation rebuilding home in Youngstown, Ohio, and the 2023 documentary short Love, Jamie. She began her career working for the veteran journalist Bill Moyers, and has been a producer, cameraperson and correspondent for various PBS news magazines over the last 15 years. Her work was cited by the Columbia Journalism Review as “compelling, informative and compassionate.” Karla is of Filipino and South Asian descent. She graduated from Oberlin College, is an alum of the Third World Newsreel Workshop and the Documentary Institute at Antioch College in Ohio.