Bobbie Birleffi received the 2011 Jury Award for Best Documentary for Wish Me Away at the Los Angeles Film Festival. She is a versatile, experienced and EMMY-Award-winning documentary filmmaker. Trained early in her career by Bill Moyers, Jim Lehrer and Hugh Downs, she won a national EMMY as Director of the acclaimed PBS FRONTLINE documentary, Men Who Molest. Prior to that film, Birleffi produced and directed the PBS EMMY-nominated independent documentaries, Is Anyone Home on the Range, and The Mormons, (PBS) nominated for the Distinguished Documentary award by International Documentary Association. Bobbie directed the first two episodes of the historical reality series, Texas Ranch House, which premiered on PBS in May 2006. In 2007, she was nominated for the prestigious DGA Award (Director’s Guild) in the Reality TV category for her work on this critically acclaimed series. She has worked as a post producer for the TLC reality series Miami Ink, and the TLC series, LA INK. Her one hour documentary for Discovery, NYC Inside/Out, aired in 2010.

Born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Birleffi received her B.A. degree in Broadcast & Film from Stanford University; and her Masters degree in Urban Affairs from Occidental College. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America, New York Women in Film and Television and has taught undergraduate film production at the University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television. She is on the Advisory Board of the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val Kill.

TVgals Media was formed in 2001 when Beverly Kopf and Bobbie Birleffi joined forces. Currently, they are producing, directing and writing a series of 40 short portraits of each of the Broadway Theaters for the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in New York City. The series, “Spotlight on Broadway,” will have its premiere in the fall of 2013.