DIRECTORS

Amy French wrote and directed the improvised musical feature EL SÚPERSTAR, executive produced by Norman Lear and George Lopez. As an AFI Directing Workshop for Women fellow, Amy’s short film HOLD FOR LAUGHS won the Jean Picker Firstenberg Award, and subsequent shorts have played at top festivals nationwide. In TV, she directed HYPERLINKED, a single camera sitcom for YouTube Originals and Disney Digital, and the dramedy pilot THE HIGH LIFE, which premiered in competition at Bentonville, as well as having shadowed on three multicams, including with director Pamela Fryman. Amy has written and directed branded and web content for The Skimm, Umami Burger, Aetna Insurance, NickMom and the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Amy is half of a comedy writing team with partner Kerry Carney, and together they have amassed a ton of of television development experience, including deals at Sony, Lionsgate, and Warner Brothers. They’ve had both single and multicam projects, working with Mandeville, Discount Sushi, Stoopid Buddy, and Counterbalance, as well as television legend Norman Lear, with whom they got to take out a multicam. Additionally, they did punch up on the Hulu feature PLAN B, and wrote the live action feature script POPPY HOPKINS for Nickelodeon. Kerry and Amy currently have two original feature length comedy scripts available, and a third with Gulfstream Pictures.