Amy Hobby

Amy L. Hobby (* 1964 or 1965) is an American film producer and filmmaker who won her 2016 documentary What Happened, Miss Simone? has been nominated for an Oscar and has won other film awards.

Hobby is the founder of the film production company Tangerine Entertainment together with Anne Hubbell. The Tribeca Film Institute named her Vice President in November 2015.

Life

Amy Hobby, who became a producer of award-winning feature film and television productions, graduated from Rice University with a degree in Political Science and Art History, and completed her graduation film on the New York University program.

Her work includes full-length dramas as well as documentaries. She is one of those producers who can rely on a wide range of what you need for the production of a film. She has earned a reputation as a filmmaker for daring personalities with strong characters. Hobby started her career in 1994 with the horror drama Nadja with Elina Löwensohn in the title role, in which David Lynch was also involved. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival , where it was acquired by the independent studio October Films . In 1997 Hobby co-produced the multi-award-winning romantic drama Sunday , which won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, among other prizes. As part of the Un Certain Regard , the film was also presented in the Museum of Modern Art and was shown at other festivals.

In 2000 Hobby produced the literary film adaptation of Hamlet, starring Ethan Hawke , Kyle MacLachlan , Sam Shepard and Bill Murray , which was distributed by Miramax Films . The episodrama Thirteen Conversations About One Thing starring Alan Arkin , John Turturro and Matthew McConaughey , about five people in New York in search of happiness, was co-produced by Hobby. This was followed by the development and production of the feature film Secretary , a mixture of romantic drama and black comedy, which was honored and nominated for the special jury prize and other awards at the Sundance Film Festival . Hobby was honored with the Golden Orange Award for this. Maggie Gyllenhaal also owes the film her rise to star.

Another project that Hobby was involved in was a large-scale educational documentary on sex education in America that was conducted in ten cities and spanned more than two years: Let's Talk About Sex (2009). Hobby, which has now credited nine Sundance premieres to its account, has turned to high-profile documentaries, including And Everything Is Going Fine (2010), based on the diaries of the monologist , actor and author Spalding Gray , directed by Steven Soderbergh . Hobby co-produced the low-budget teen comedy The Virginity Hit alongside Will Ferrell in 2010 .

The documentary Love, Marilyn (2012) by Liz Garbus, which throws intimate glances into previously unseen diaries and notes by Marilyn Monroe , is just as much a part of Hobbys productions as the award-winning comedic drama Gayby , in which a homosexual couple decides to have a child to get. Hobby produced this film with Anne Hubbell, her partner at Tangerine Entertainment. The film was honored with the award of the same name at the Ashland Independent Film Festival in 2012, and won other prizes and other nominations. The documentary Shepard & Dark , which Hobby produced in 2012, tells of the friendship between the American dramaturge and actor Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, whose relationship has been primarily defined by letters over the decades. Hobby was awarded the Jury Prize in the “Best Documentary” category at the Woodstock Film Festival. She was also the winner of the “Best Documentary Award” at the Cleveland International Film Festival, both with Treva Wurmfeld. For her documentary about the life and career of the American jazz and blues singer Nina Simone under the title What Happened, Miss Simone? Hobby 2016 is nominated for an Oscar in the category "Best Documentary" together with Liz Garbus and Justin Wilkes .

Hobby is very open to independent projects, she also works for the Writers Guild Association and attends film festivals around the world. She is one of the judges for the Independent Spirit Awards , GenArt, Florida Film Festival, and the Golden Trailer Awards . The filmmaker is based in New York.

Filmography (selection)

producer

• 1994: Nadja
• 1994: Insomnia (Insomnia)
• 1994: Bad Apples
• 1997: Tempête dans un verre d'eau
• 1997: Sunday
• 1998: trance
• 1999: Spy Games - History Is Made at Night
• 2000: Hamlet
• 2001: Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
• 2002: Secretary
• 2002: Let the Church Say, Amen
• 2003: Coney Island Baby (also director)
• 2003: Undermind
• 2005: Love, Ludlow
• 2005: Independent Lens - Let the Church Say Amen (TV series)
• 2006: Send in the Clown
• 2007: Adrift in Manhattan
• 2007: Dear Lemon Lima (short film)
• 2007: Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America
• 2007: All Saints Day (short film)
• 2009: Paradise (documentary)
• 2009: Let's Talk About Sex (Documentary)
• 2010: And Everything Is Going Fine (documentary)
• 2010: The Virginity Hit
• 2012: Love, Marilyn (documentary)
• 2012: Gayby
• 2012: Shepard & Dark (documentary)
• 2013: Untitled Artificial Heart Project (Documentation)
• 2013: Lucky Them - In Search of Matthew Smith (Lucky Them)
• 2015: What Happened, Miss Simone? (Documentary)
• 2015: The Erotic Fire of the Unattainable
• 2016: The Last Laugh (documentary)
• 2016: Billy & Ray
• 2016: Paint It Black
• 2016: Keep the Change

Camera, electrics and as specified

• 1989: Luxury, Sex and Lotter Life ( Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills ; as Amy L. Hobby)
• 1990: A Cry in the Wild
• 1990: Rainbow Drive Murder ( Rainbow Drive , movie made for TV)
• 1991: Iron Maze - In the web of passion (Iron Maze)
• 1992: Demonic Toys (video)
• 1992: Mein Vetter Winnie (My Cousin Vinny)
• 1993: Loaded Weapon 1 (National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1)
• 1994: Ed Wood (assistant to producer)
• 1994: Bad Apples
• 1995: At Sundance (documentary; director)
• 2007: Independent Lens - Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (television series documentary; production consultant)
• 2014: Captured : The Trials of Pamela Smart ( Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart , documentary; project advisor)

Awards

• 2003: Winner of the Golden Orange Award for Secretary and Thirteen Conversations About One Thing at the Florida Film Critics Circle Awards. Reason: "For consistent quality and a thirst for adventure in film production."
• 2003: Nominated for the Independent Spirit Award in the "Best Feature" category for the film drama Secretary
  together with Andrew Fierberg and Steven Shainberg
• 2003: Winner of the Jury Award at the Newport International Film Festival, Rhode Island in the category "Best First Director" for Coney Island Baby
• 2012: Winner of the Jury Prize at the Woodstock Film Festival in the category “Best Documentary” for Shepard & Dark
  • together with Treva Wurmfeld
• 2013: Winner of the Best Documentary Award for Shepard & Dark at the Cleveland International Film Festival
  • together with Treva Wurmfeld
• 2015: Nominated for the IDA Award from the International Documentary Association in the “Best Feature” category for the short film What Happened, Miss Simone?
  • together with Liz Garbus, Jayson Jackson and Justin Wilkes
• 2016 : Oscar nomination for What Happened, Miss Simone?
  • together with Liz Garbus and Justin Wilkes

Web links

• Amy Hobby in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Amy Hobby at TCM - Turner Classic Movies (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Age according to radaris.com
2. ↑ Age according to usidentify.com
3. ↑ Support Tangerine's Juice Fund to Boost Emerging Female Talent at filmmakermagazine.com (English), accessed on February 9, 2016.
4. ↑ About at tang-ent.com (English), accessed on April 11, 2019.
5. ↑ Zack Sharf: Tribeca Film Institute Names Amy Hobby Artist Programs Vice President In: Indiewire, November 4, 2015, indiewire.com (English), accessed February 9, 2016.
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Amy Hobby ( memento from February 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at tang-ent.com (English), accessed on February 9, 2016.
7. ↑ The 88th Academy Awards | 2016 at oscars.org (English)