In 2020, Amy launched her career as a director, but it was many years before then that she decided that’s what she wanted to be. At age 13 she decided her dream would be to have a film production company, that focused on making modern “vintage” style movies. In a way, her vision has only expanded.
As a filmmaker, her stories often are set in another time-period, another landscape, and are often women-centered and/or queer. As a queer woman herself, she finds joy in expressing the untold stories of her community, especially of the sapphic community which has been historically under-represented.
Performance and writing has always been in her wheelhouse and continues to be so. In “Dear Sister” (2020) her directorial debut, she performed the title role of the sister, while her long-time collaborator Jeremy Partyka played Eddie. It was a two person crew, which consisted solely of Amy (writer, director, actor) and Jeremy (DP, editor), which required a lot of creativity, and resourcefulness. Not having a large crew wasn’t going to stop them from creating the story they wanted to tell– a dream-like period piece, set in the rural English countryside, about a trans woman (Eddie) discovering her identity.
The feeling of “longing” is her favorite evocative device that she utilizes in her work. Her current film she’s working on (“Good Seeing You”, going into production in 2024) is about a young lesbian living in the early 00’s in Williamsburg, working in a cafe and grappling with feelings of loneliness.
As a filmmaker, her stories often are set in another time-period, another landscape, and are often women-centered and/or queer. As a queer woman herself, she finds joy in expressing the untold stories of her community, especially of the sapphic community which has been historically under-represented.
Performance and writing has always been in her wheelhouse and continues to be so. In “Dear Sister” (2020) her directorial debut, she performed the title role of the sister, while her long-time collaborator Jeremy Partyka played Eddie. It was a two person crew, which consisted solely of Amy (writer, director, actor) and Jeremy (DP, editor), which required a lot of creativity, and resourcefulness. Not having a large crew wasn’t going to stop them from creating the story they wanted to tell– a dream-like period piece, set in the rural English countryside, about a trans woman (Eddie) discovering her identity.
The feeling of “longing” is her favorite evocative device that she utilizes in her work. Her current film she’s working on (“Good Seeing You”, going into production in 2024) is about a young lesbian living in the early 00’s in Williamsburg, working in a cafe and grappling with feelings of loneliness.
