Amy B.

About

Amy Bench is a cinematographer and filmmaker based in Austin, Texas. She took a circuitous path to filmmaking, first working as an engineer for Eastman Kodak before pursuing an MFA in directing at UT (2010). She has been twice nominated for the Kodak Excellence in Cinematography Award and has won grants from the International Documentary Association (IDA), Austin Film Society (Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund), Women in Film- Dallas, and the Department of Education’s Jacob K. Davits Fellowship, and is currently a member of the Austin Contemporary’s multidisciplinary artist group The Crit Group. She was recently named a “DP on the Rise” by Paste Magazine. As a cinematographer her credits include TRANS IN AMERICA (Emmy, 2019), UPROOTED (HBO Max, NAACP Image Award nomination, 2022), BAD AT DANCING (Silver Bear, Berlinale, 2015), HOLY HELL (Sundance, 2016) and RUNNING WITH BETO (SXSW, 2019). Her camera work has won an Emmy, 2 Webby awards, and has screened at festivals including Berlin, SXSW, Sundance, The New York Film Festival, and at MOMA/PS1. She is the Director of Photography on three features premiering at SXSW in March: Mama Bears (dir Daresha Kyi- Chavela), Lover Beloved (dir Michael Tully- Ping Pong Summer), and Shouting Down Midnight (dir Gretchen Stoeltje-Bionic Beauty Salon). Additionally, Amy directed the short documentary MORE THAN I REMEMBER, which received the IDA Enterprise Fund from the International Documentary Association and is premiering at SXSW in March 2022. Her 2019 film A LINE BIRDS CANNOT SEE won awards at SXSW, Cleveland, Oak Cliff Film Festival, Bend Film Festival, and IndieGrits, and is currently featured online on THE NEW YORKER. She is a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC), Documentary Cinematographers Alliance (DCA), and the ICOSA Collective.

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