Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg

Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is a filmmaker and media executive with more than a decade of experience creating award-winning documentaries. She is the producer and executive producer of The Atlantic magazine’s critically acclaimed feature documentary, "White Noise," a three-year investigation of rising white nationalism. The film premiered at AFI DOCS and IDFA in 2020 and won Best Documentary at Raindance in 2021. "White Noise" was named one of the best documentaries of 2020 by The Boston Globe and Vox. From 2011 to 2020, she created and oversaw The Atlantic’s award-winning production division, Atlantic Studios, executive producing hundreds of original documentaries, digital series, and other short-format videos. Under her leadership, Atlantic Studios won two Murrow Awards, two Headliner Awards, and an RTDNA Kaleidoscope Award, and was a three-time finalist for the National Magazine Award in Video. Its work has been showcased by AFI DOCS, IDFA, SXSW, DOC NYC, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, MountainFilm, the American Documentary Film Festival, and other festivals. Online, its videos generated millions of views each month across YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook, and gained more than half a million subscribers on YouTube.