Ep 35: Sundance Best Documentary Winner Amy Adrion!
Amy Adrion is a director and writer whose work has screened at the Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and Los Angeles Film Festivals, been broadcast on PBS and MTV, and won numerous awards.
HALF THE PICTURE, Amy’s debut feature, celebrates the groundbreaking work of women film directors and had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. HALF THE PICTURE won the #WhatNext Award at Sundance: London, the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Lighthouse Film Festival and the Impact Award at the Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival. Amy won a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Student Film Award for her narrative short SHOEGAZER, which was Executive Produced by Miranda July.
Amy is currently writing a comedic coming-of-age script about a high school girls basketball team, based on her experience playing ball in suburban New Jersey, and is attached to direct PICANTE, a wild, feminist Western about a motley crew of rebellious prostitutes in the Old West.
Amy is a graduate of the MFA Film Directing program at UCLA, with an undergraduate degree in Literature and Theology from Georgetown University. Amy grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.
On this podcast we discuss her brilliant documentary HALF THE PICTURE, which celebrates the groundbreaking work of female film directors and investigates the systemic discrimination that has, for decades, denied opportunities to far too many talented women in Hollywood.
Currently playing in select theaters.
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, SXSW Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, Sarasota Film Festival, Newport Beach Film Festival, Greenwich International Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto, Sundance Film Festival: London, Sydney Film Festival, Lighthouse Film Festival, Oak Cliff Film Festival
I had a blast discussing this with Amy, and so much more! She truly is an inspirational filmmaker.
http://amyadrion.com/about/
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