Amy Adrion is an Emmy nominated director and writer whose work has screened at the Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca Film Festivals, been broadcast on STARZ, PBS, and MTV, and won numerous awards.
Amy's debut feature, HALF THE PICTURE, which celebrates the groundbreaking work of women and non-binary film directors, had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018 and won the #WhatNext Award at Sundance Film Festival: London.
HALF THE PICTURE is rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, was released theatrically nationwide and premiered on the STARZ Network. HALF THE PICTURE is currently available on streaming platforms, including Kanopy, and continues to be broadcast internationally.
In 2023, Amy was nominated for a Children’s and Family Emmy Award for her work directing Storyline Online which is Executive Produced by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. The series features actors reading beloved children’s books that are brought to life through animation. Storyline Online is screened in homes and classrooms around the country, garnering millions of views. Amy has directed episodes featuring John Lithgow, Angela Bassett, Seth Meyers, Julianna Margulies, Lea Michelle, Sutton Foster and Tramell Tillman.
Amy's short films include her UCLA thesis film, SHOEGAZER, which won a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Student Film Award, THE HOME OF SPLIT PEA SOUP (Austin Film Festival) and SURVIVING 7TH GRADE (Tribeca Film Festival).
Amy's television work includes directing an episode of SUCKS LESS WITH KEVIN SMITH for MTV while a graduate student at UCLA.
Amy has a Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) from UCLA, with an undergraduate degree in Literature and Theology from Georgetown University.
Amy grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey playing sports and watching movies and now enjoys coaching sports and making movies in Rochester, New York (Go Bills!) where she currently teaches filmmaking at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and lives with her kids and dogs.