Amy Goldstein(I)

Amy Goldstein graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in semiotics and from NYU Film School. Between college and film school she managed Jean Pagliuso's fashion photography studio, while photographing ads for Patricia Field's stores, staging women disrobing atop bulldozers. Amy put herself through film school dressing windows at Macys. She was a Louis B. Mayer fellow at NYU film school. Her short, "Commercial for Murder" (1990), screened at the Berlin Film Festival and was distributed theatrically in a collection of shorts. Her thesis film, Because the Dawn (1988), was presented as the American Independents at the Toronto Film Festival. After school, Amy directed music videos for artists from around the world, including Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train". She also directed for Lifetime Television Network on the series Veronica Clare (1991) about a sultry female detective. She then directed the feature film The Silencer (1992), which she co-wrote with Scott Kraft, and they went on to develop pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, Showtime, and MTV, and the hip-hop musical Check Under the Hood for Jersey Films/Polygram. She directed the award-winning feature film East of A (2000), an edgy comedy about an alternative family facing the challenges of raising a child with HIV - starring Adam Arkin, Rashida Jones, Mary McCormack, David Alan Grier, Camryn Manheim, Patrick Breen, Glen Chin. The film won the Burning Vision Award at Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Amy directed the feature documentary The Hooping Life (2014) (2014) scored by Basement Jaxx. She went on to direct the docu-series Self-Made Men (2017) for ITVS. She recently directed the feature documentary Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl (2018) (IDFA, Doc NYC, Sheffield Doc Fest, Doc Edge) that was acquired by the BBC Storyville. She is developing several feature projects in the documentary and scripted spaces. Goldstein is a member of the DGA, the WGA, the International Documentary Association, Film Fatales, and Film Independent.