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 in Summer 2018, and premiered on the STARZ Network in October 2018. HALF THE PICTURE is available on all streaming platforms, on Kanopy, and continues to be broadcast internationally.

Amy is proud to have directed and produced numerous episodes of the beloved, Emmy nominated children’s series Storyline Online, Executive Produced by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation. 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 and SURVIVING 7TH GRADE.

Amy's television work includes directing an episode of SUCKS LESS WITH KEVIN SMITH for MTV while a graduate student at UCLA.

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 playing sports and watching movies and now enjoys watching sports and making movies in Rochester, New York (Go Bills!) where she currently teaches filmmaking at RIT and lives with her kids and dogs.