Amy Adrion is a writer, director and editor living in Los Angeles.
Amy’s short film “Surviving 7th Grade” screened at the Tribeca, Los Angeles, Austin, Olympia, and Silver Lake Film Festivals, among others. In September 2008, “Surviving 7th Grade” was broadcast on the largest PBS affiliate in the country, WNET/THIRTEEN in New York City. It has since been rebroadcast numerous times.
“The Home of Split Pea Soup,” Amy’s next short film, about a woman whose car breaks down on the worst day of her life, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in October 2007 and went on to screen at MethodFEST, The Portland Women’s Film Festival, Flickerings in Chicago and the Paso Robles Digital Film Festival where it won the Festival Choice Award.
Amy’s UCLA thesis film, “Shoegazer,” was Executive Produced by Miranda July (“Me And You And Everyone We Know”). “Shoegazer” won a Jury Award from the Directors Guild of America in their annual DGA student film awards and has played at festivals in Austin, Memphis, Omaha, Sonoma, Portland, and Seattle. It continues to screen in festivals across the country.
In addition to making films, Amy has worked as the Head of Research for the Academy Awards Red Carpet Show, as an Associate Programmer for World Cinema at the Sundance Film Festival and in the editing room of “The 11th Hour,” a feature documentary Executive Produced and Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Amy is a graduate of the MFA film directing program at the University of California, Los Angeles. She grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey and received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University where she studied English Literature and Theology.
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