Owner Span Productions, film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active
1986-present
Amy Goldstein is an American
director,
producer and
screenwriter of music videos, television series (HBO, Fox, CBS, Showtime, MTV), and feature films. Her work has been presented at
film festivals worldwide.
Career
Amy Goldstein graduated a Louis B. Mayer fellow from NYU film school. Goldstein has directed music videos for artists worldwide, including
Rod Stewart’s "
Downtown Train" Her lesbian vampire musical, Because The Dawn, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 1988.[1][2][3] With
Scott Kraft she co-wrote and directed the feature film, The Silencer, for
Crown International Pictures.[4]
In 2000, Goldstein directed the award-winning feature film East of A about an alternative family facing the challenges of raising a child with HIV.[5][6][7][8][9] Amy writes for television and film, including pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, Showtime and MTV, and a hip-hop musical for Polygram/Jersey Films. Her 2010 documentary film The Hooping Life is about the resurgence in
hooping. In 2022, her documentary The Unmaking of a College about her alma mater
Hampshire College premiered.[10]