Molly Condit
Filmmaker and Photographer
Great Bear Media
Molly Condit is an American photographer and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on animal welfare, human-animal relationships and visual storytelling as advocacy. After graduating from Columbia University with a degree in Film Studies, she began her career in post-production, including work as an assistant editor on the Academy Award-winning documentary Man on Wire.
Her assignments and collaborations have taken her from factory farms and sanctuaries to wildlife conservation initiatives involving anti-poaching K9 units in Namibia and animal rescue efforts in conflict zones. In 2022, she documented animal evacuations facilitated by PETA Germany in Ukraine and Poland, work later featured in National Geographic. This work contributed to the development of an archive dedicated to animals in armed conflict, a project for which she served as a panelist at Harvard Animal Law Week 2023. She is currently directing and producing The ARK, an observational documentary following animal hoarding investigations in Pima County, Arizona.
Through her work, Molly is passionate about helping younger generations see creative storytelling, photojournalism and documentary filmmaking as meaningful pathways within the animal protection movement. Based in Arizona, she’s fortunate enough to live with rescue felines who remind her daily just how lucky she is to be their human.
Websites: www.gbearmedia.com and www.mollyandthegreatbear.com
Session: Engaging the Next Generation: Youth Leadership, Storytelling, and Humane Education
