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Amy Goldstein graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in semiotics and from NYU Film School. Between college and film school she managed Jean Pagliuso's fashion photography studio, while photographing ads for Patricia Field's stores, staging women disrobing atop bulldozers. Amy put herself through film school dressing windows at Macys. She was a Louis B. Mayer fellow at NYU film school. Her short, "Commercial for Murder" (1990), screened at the Berlin Film Festival and was distributed theatrically in a collection of shorts. Her thesis film, Because the Dawn (1988), was presented as the American Independents at the Toronto Film Festival with Todd Haynes' Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988). After school, Amy directed music videos for artists from around the world, including Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train". She also directed for Lifetime Television Network on the series "Veronica Clare" (1991) about a sultry female detective. She then directed the feature film The Silencer (1992), which she co-wrote with Scott Kraft, and they went on to develop pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, Showtime, and MTV, and the hip-hop musical Check Under the Hood for Jersey Films/Polygram. She directed the award-winning feature film East of A (2000), an edgy comedy about an alternative family facing the challenges of raising a child with HIV. Amy is completing a documentary, "The Hooping Life" (1999), a chronicle of a worldwide subculture of "hoopers" who transcend their personal toil and the world's fears through hula-hooping. Sponsored by Women Make Movies, and funded by New York State Council of the Arts and the Pioneer Fund.

Trivia

2008 HBO/DGA Television Directing Fellow.

Sister of Los Angeles Times' columnist Patrick Goldstein.

Served on the board of Outfest.

Worked with the West Hollywood Homeless Shelter, sharing with them skills and equipment to document their lives and struggles. While in film school, worked on a similar project in the South Bronx with high-risk teens.

Directed a PSA for Human Right Campaign Fund with Betty DeGeneres.