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Amanda Micheli

Amanda Micheli

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Amanda Micheli is an American director and the founder of Runaway Films. Her latest film Vegas Baby premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and will be released to the public in 2017.

Micheli earned an Oscar nomination for La Corona, which follows an unlikely beauty pageant in a Colombian women’s prison. La Corona premiered at the Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO. She also directed and shot Double Dare, which explores the lives of two Hollywood stuntwomen. Double Dare premiered at The Toronto International Film Festival and was broadcast on PBS before its theatrical release. Featuring interviews with Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino, and Lynda Carter, it won numerous film festival awards. Her first film, Just for the Ride, about the cowgirls who founded the first professional sport in America, won a student Oscar and an International Documentary Association Award and premiered on the PBS series POV in 1996.

In 2014, Micheli produced Slomo, which won best short at SXSW and the International Documentary Association. She also co-directed One Nation Under Dog for HBO, which won a TV Academy honor for “Television with a Conscience” and The Save for ESPN. She was producer and cinematographer on Thin, the award-winning HBO film about anorexia. Also for HBO, she was producer and cinematographer on Cat Dancers, and supervising producer on Brave New Voices, a series about teen poetry. Other cinematography credits include: Morgan Spurlock’s premiere episode of 30 Days (FX), My Flesh and Blood, (HBO), The Flute Player, (PBS) and Witches in Exile.

Micheli is a graduate of Harvard University and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. While pursuing feature-length projects, she has directed commercial work for clients including Nike, Google and Verizon and is a past visiting lecturer at Stanford’s MFA film program.

Filmography

  • VEGAS BABY (2016 / Director / Producer / Cinematographer)
  • SLOMO (2013/ Producer)
  • ONE NATION UNDER DOG (HBO 2012/ Co-Director, Producer, Cinematographer)
  • THE SAVE (ESPN 2011/ Director, Producer, Cinematographer)
  • LA CORONA (HBO 2008/ Director, Producer, Cinematographer)
  • CAT DANCERS (HBO 2007/ Director, Producer, Cinematographer)
  • THIN (HBO 2006/ Producer, Cinematographer)
  • 30 DAYS: “Minimum Wage” (FX 2005/ Cinematographer)
  • DOUBLE DARE (PBS 2004/ Director, Cinematographer)
  • MY FLESH AND BLOOD (HBO 2004/ Cinematographer)
  • WITCHES IN EXILE (2004/ Cinematographer / SXSW Special Jury Prize)
  • THE FLUTE PLAYER (2003/ Cinematographer / SXSW Audience Award, PBS broadcast, Emmy nominee)
  • JUST FOR THE RIDE (PBS 1996/ Director, Editor, Cinematographer)
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