Pamela B. Green is a two-time Emmy-nominated, award-winning American film director and producer known for her work in feature film titles and motion graphics. She is the director, writer, editor, and producer of the 2018 documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.Murie, Michael. "Be Natural: Interview with documentary filmmakers Pamela Green and Jarik van Sluijs". Filmmaker. August 26, 2013. Web. Retrieved February 27, 2014. In 2020, she was awarded the Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year award at the FOCAL International awards for her work on Be Natural.
PIC Collective In 2005, Green co-founded PIC Collective, an audiovisual communications studio focused on entertainment and motion design. PIC Collective designs and produces content for motion pictures, television, and commercials, and has done main title sequences for over 100 feature films and for every major Hollywood studio. Since PIC Collective's founding, Green has creative-directed and produced main titles and marketing campaigns for The Kingdom,Seymour, Mike. "The Kingdom: the Agency, the Effects, the Titles" FX Guide. February 28, 2008. Web. Retrieved March 26, 2014. Twilight, The Cabin in the Woods, The Muppets, 42, and numerous others, as well as TV show packages for the Academy Awards, the Billboard Awards, the Critics’ Choice Awards, and the mini-documentary sequences for VH1ʼs Soul Divas: History of Soul Music.
The title sequence for The Kingdom was honored with a place on the Independent Film Channel's list “The 50 Greatest Opening Title Sequences of All Time”. PIC Collective was also awarded a 2013 Key Art Award in Audio/Visual Technique for the titles of The Wolverine.List of 2013 Key Art Award Winners , as published by the Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
On November 21, 2019, PIC Collective won Silver for a Clio Award in the category best Audio Visual Technique in Motion Graphics.
Be Natural In 2012, Green began working on Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché, a feature-length documentary about the first female film director. Green produced, directed, wrote, and edited the documentary with executive producer Robert Redford. In 2013, Green and her team raised over $200,000 via Kickstarter to further fund the documentary.Highfill, Samantha. “'Be Natural' reaches Kickstarter goal, tells story of first female director” Entertainment Weekly. August 26, 2013. Web. Retrieved February 27, 2014.Leopold, Todd. Trying to get first woman director her due CNN Entertainment. August 20, 2013. Web. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
In addition, Green was a recipient of the Sundance Institute Documentary Fund. The film premiered in the Official Selection of Cannes Classics 2018 and then had its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, followed by the Deauville American Film Festival, New York Film Festival, and the BFI London film Festival. It was acquired by Zeitgeist Films in association with Kino Lorber and was released in theaters in April 2019. The film was well-received by most critics, with Deadline's Pete Hammond calling it "the Best Film In Cannes" and Katie Walsh for the Los Angeles Times calling it "illuminating". Be Natural was nominated by the Critics Choice Documentary Awards in the Best First Documentary Category. Be Natural was also awarded Best Documentary at the 2020 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. On November 17, 2019, after a screening of the film at the Barrymore Film Center, the Fort Lee Film Commission awarded director Pamela B. Green with the Barrymore Film Center Alice Guy-Blaché Award and narrator Jodie Foster with the Barrymore Film Center Award.
Be Natural was nominated for five awards at the 2020 FOCAL International Awards and took home the prize for Best Use of Footage in a Cinematic Feature and the Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year Award.
In December, the film was named one of the 50 Best Films of 2020 in the UK by The Guardian.
Later in December, the film was named one of the 10 Best Documentaries in Peter Bradshaw's film picks of 2020.
In 2021, Be Natural was nominated for a Peabody Award.
Legwork Collective In 2018, Green founded Legwork Collective, a media company that focuses on telling inspiring and moving scripted and unscripted stories that bring overlooked figures to the forefront via film, television, and audio.
In 2020, Legwork Collective received a grant from The Redford Center to direct a nonpartisan Public Service Announcement encouraging young people to Take Action and Vote!
Filmmaker Green directed the 2008 short Compact Only, which was nominated for Best Short at the Milan International Film Festival, for the Audience Award in the Fresno Film Festival, Best Short at the Beverly Hills Shorts Festival, and for the Best Short at The Int'l Fest of Cinema and Technology. The film won Best Short at the Tallahassee Film Festival, Best Short at the Treasure Coast International Film Festival, Accolade Film Award Winner, Best Comedy Short at the Gone With the Film Festival, Winner Aloha Accolade Award Honolulu, and much more.
Green was a co-producer on the 2010 documentary BhuttoBhutto credits PBS. Retrieved March 26, 2014. about the 11th Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto.
In 2011, Green directed the music video for The Click Five's song “Don’t Let Me Go”, which was created in partnership with MTV EXIT and featured a message to raise awareness about human trafficking.
In 2012, Green directed a commercial for Super-Max Razors which starred actor Gerard Butler.
In 2012, Bhutto was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story – Long Form.List of Nominees for the 33rd Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards , as published by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
In 2014, Green was included in Saul Bass's book Anatomy of Film Design, listing her as being part of a "wholly digitally trained generation of title designers."
In 2014, Green was selected to serve as a juror for Excellence in Title Design category at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival.List of Jurors at the 2014 South by Southwest Film Festival , as published on the South by Southwest website. Retrieved February 27, 2014.
In 2016, Green directed an Audi commercial.
In 2016, Green was selected to serve as a judge for The Motion Awards for motionographer.com.
In 2018, Green's documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché premiered at Cannes.
In 2020, Green directed the nonpartisan PSA, Take Action and Vote! for the Redford Center.
In 2021, Green's documentary Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché was nominated for a Peabody Award.
In 2021, Be Natural was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Research: Documentary.
Green is currently working on a feature biopic script about the mother of cinema, Alice Guy-Blaché, which will feature new material not seen in the documentary Be Natural.
Green has also developed Aces Never Sleep, a female-driven detective series, with Jamie Wolf's Foothill Productions and former CAA agent John Ptak, and they are in talks with different financiers. The series takes place during a pandemic, social unrest, economic crisis, racism and a polarized America. Kate Warn and her team of lady operatives are behind the true origins of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, founded by fervent abolitionist Allan Pinkerton. Historical figures appear throughout the series, including Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, notably when the agency's most valued Ace Kate Warn and fellow detectives thwart an assassination attempt on the President-Elect.
In 2022, Green did a kickstarter campaign for Ask The Question, a biopic about Ben A Barres.
In 2025, Be Natural was on the New York Times list of " The Movies we've loved since 2000" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/movies/best-movies-since-2000.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Awards and accolades +YearAwardCategoryRoleResult2021News and Documentary Emmy AwardsOutstanding Research: DocumentaryDirector, ResearcherNominated2021Peabody AwardsArtsDirector, producerNominated2020Bangkok International Documentary AwardsBest Feature DocumentaryDirector, producerWon2020Monadnock International Film FestivalBest Documentary FeatureDirector, producerWon2020FOCAL International Film FestivalBest Use of Footage in a Cinematic Feature for Be Natural Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year Award for Be NaturalDirector, ResearcherWon2020FOCAL International Film FestivalBest Use of Footage in an Arts Production for Be Natural
Best Use of Footage in a History Feature for Be Natural
Student Jury Award for Be NaturalDirector, ResearcherNominated2020Vancouver International Women in Film FestivalBest Documentary for Be NaturalDirector, producerWon2020Filmmor Film Festival Audience AwardBest Documentary for Be NaturalDirector, producerNominated2020International Filmmor Women's Film FestivalBest Documentary Feature for Be NaturalDirector, producerNominated2019Clio Entertainment Award Silver PrizeBest Audio-Visual Technique in Motion Graphics for Be NaturalDirector, producerWon 2019Critics' Choice AwardBest First Documentary Feature for Be NaturalDirector, producerNominated2018Cannes Film Festival L'Oeil D'Or Documentary for Be NaturalDirector, producerNominated2018ADC Merit AwardMotion / Film Craft for Be NaturalDirector, producerWon2013Key Art AwardAudio Visual Technique for the titles of The WolverineWon2012EmmyOutstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story for BhuttoProducerNominated2012Peabody AwardsArea of ExcellenceCo-producerWon2009Milano International Film Festival AwardsBest Narrative Short for Compact OnlyDirector, producerNominated2009Best of Fest Treasure Coast International Film FestivalBest Editing for Compact Only Director, producer, editorWon
Selected filmography