Amy Ziering
Amy Ziering (* 1962 in Massachusetts ) is an American film producer who mainly focuses on documentaries .
life and career
At the age of 16 she became interested in the work of Jacques Derrida and in 2002 she dedicated a documentary to him. Amy Ziering graduated from Amherst College in 1984 with a degree in English. In the 1980s, she graduated from Yale University . In 1998 she made her first appearance as a producer on the documentary Taylor's Campaign . The film received an award for Best Documentary at two film festivals. Ziering made her directorial debut with the documentary Derrida and received the Golden Gate Award together with Kirby Dick at the San Francisco International Film Festival . In 2007 she returned to the film drama The Memory Thief , starring Mark Webber and Rachel Miner . Ziering worked again with Kirby Dick in 2009. Dick wrote and directed the documentary about homosexuality in politics, with Amy Ziering appearing again as a producer. At the 2013 Academy Awards , she and Kirby Dick received an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary category for her documentary The Invisible War .
Filmography
- 1998: Taylor's Campaign (documentary)
- 2002: Derrida (documentary)
- 2007: The Memory Thief
- 2009: Outrage (documentary)
- 2012: The Invisible War (documentary)
- 2015: The Hunting Ground
Web links
- Amy Ziering in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b DERRIDA. RealFictionFilme, accessed February 20, 2013 .
- ↑ Amy Ziering. (No longer available online.) Huffington Post , archived from the original September 17, 2012 ; accessed on February 20, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ziering, Amy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ziering Kofman, Amy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American film producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Massachusetts |