Film Forum Extras: Amy Adrion

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Amy Adrion is a director and writer whose work has screened at the Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca and Los Angeles Film Festivals, broadcast on PBS and MTV, and won numerous awards including a Directors Guild of America (DGA) Student Film Award and the Impact Award at the Sarasota Film Festival / Through Women’s Eyes Film Festival. HALF THE PICTURE, Adrion’s debut feature, had its World Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018. It celebrates the ground-breaking work of women film and TV directors. HALF THE PICTURE won the #WhatNext Award at the Sundance Film Festival: London, the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Lighthouse Film Festival and was nominated for the Chicken & Egg Award at the SXSW Film Festival. Adrion is a graduate of the MFA Film Directing program at UCLA, with an under-graduate degree in Literature and Theology from Georgetown University. She grew up in Hillsdale, New Jersey and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. Engineer: Chris Sopko Hosts: Chris Sopko, Molly Jenkins and Nico Cimino