Amy Janes
Iae: Tell us where you’re from and what inspired you to get into the business?
Amy: I split the coasts, so I spent half of my life growing up in Philadelphia (Pa) area and the other half in the San Francisco Bay Area. I went to Penn State University for 2 ½ years and then I found out that I was going to have to pay for my own education because of some family things that came up. During that intense period, I had a dream that I was at my own funeral and my mom came up to me and said,"Amy, what am I going to do without you?" I told her [in that dream] that I would make a movie so that anytime she’s sad, lonely, or missing me, she could just pop the movie in and see me. So I woke up the next morning and went...
Iae: Tell us where you’re from and what inspired you to get into the business?
Amy: I split the coasts, so I spent half of my life growing up in Philadelphia (Pa) area and the other half in the San Francisco Bay Area. I went to Penn State University for 2 ½ years and then I found out that I was going to have to pay for my own education because of some family things that came up. During that intense period, I had a dream that I was at my own funeral and my mom came up to me and said,"Amy, what am I going to do without you?" I told her [in that dream] that I would make a movie so that anytime she’s sad, lonely, or missing me, she could just pop the movie in and see me. So I woke up the next morning and went...
- 8/4/2010
- I Am Entertainment Magazine
This week's offerings give us the choice of walking with death or battling the undead. For those taking it easy this week, there's also roller skating with Ellen Page and having fun playing God (or inventing him, at any rate) with Ricky Gervais.
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"Afterschool"
After making a name for himself at Cannes with his award-winning shorts, Nyu film grad Antonio Campos took his feature debut there last year. "Afterschool" earned its share of controversy during its festival run, along with as a Spirit Award nomination for best first feature. Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant and Michael Haneke, this hazy story of digital detachment blends viral video and prep school tragedy in its story of a paranoid internet junkie (Ezra Miller) who witnesses the death of a pair of classmates who overdose on drugs, and...
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"Afterschool"
After making a name for himself at Cannes with his award-winning shorts, Nyu film grad Antonio Campos took his feature debut there last year. "Afterschool" earned its share of controversy during its festival run, along with as a Spirit Award nomination for best first feature. Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant and Michael Haneke, this hazy story of digital detachment blends viral video and prep school tragedy in its story of a paranoid internet junkie (Ezra Miller) who witnesses the death of a pair of classmates who overdose on drugs, and...
- 9/29/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
This Valentine's Day weekend, there's plenty to make you want to clutch your significant other tight in the dark -- Isla Fisher wields a credit card, Jason Voorhees puts on his hockey mask one more time and Clive Owen is the quite ridiculous vessel for an entire nation's displaced rage.
"As Seen Through These Eyes"
In the works for ten painstaking years, writer/director Hilary Helstein's debut feature achieves its noble goal -- to tell, in her words, "an uplifting story about the Holocaust" -- by focusing on concentration camp prisoners who made the best of their limited resources and created artwork, many of whom survived the horrors to go on and become internationally recognized artists. Mixing archival footage with candid testimony from the survivors, Helstein presents these remarkable people and their equally remarkable work -- music, art, poetry -- that served then as it served now, as a...
"As Seen Through These Eyes"
In the works for ten painstaking years, writer/director Hilary Helstein's debut feature achieves its noble goal -- to tell, in her words, "an uplifting story about the Holocaust" -- by focusing on concentration camp prisoners who made the best of their limited resources and created artwork, many of whom survived the horrors to go on and become internationally recognized artists. Mixing archival footage with candid testimony from the survivors, Helstein presents these remarkable people and their equally remarkable work -- music, art, poetry -- that served then as it served now, as a...
- 2/14/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
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