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Amy Wang
Biography
Amy Wang is a Chinese-Australian filmmaker who grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Her unique perspective often as an outsider fuels her passion for stories about social isolation and the human condition. Her undergraduate film (Blind Luck) received an honorable mention at the LA Film Festival and screened in numerous festivals around the world. Upon graduation, Amy worked as a promos producer, where she directed shoots for X Factor Australia and worked on shows such as Criminal Minds, Downton Abbey and How to Get Away with Murder. Amy completed her Masters as a directing fellow at the American Film Institute where she was awarded a scholarship. She was selected to participate in the prestigious Ryan Murphy Half Foundation where she was mentored by Executive Producer/Director Bradley Buecker on American Horror Story S6. Her thesis film “Unnatural” has been nominated for the Grand Prix at the highly prestigious Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and won an Honorable Mention at Rochester Film Festival and Barcelona International Film Festival. Amy was also awarded Gold at the Young Director Award at Cannes Lions 2018. Her latest short screenplay “Wa Wa” was a finalist in the Shore Film Fund, Lexus/Sydney Film Festival Fellowship and the Bluecat Screenplay Competition. She is currently developing a limited series aimed at humanizing social pariahs and two features exploring two extremely flawed women. She is repped by Kaplan/Perrone in Los Angeles.