FILMMAKING
AMDA’s filmmaking students are immersed in a collaborative, conservatory environment mentored by working professionals. Students experience training that is rooted in storytelling, professionalism, craft, and a study of both the history of the screen arts and up-to-the-minute innovations. Our goal is to unleash imaginations, bring creative ideas to fruition, and graduate skilled filmmakers ready to work in the industry and tell their stories.
Our seniors' capstone films will premiere on June 5th at 7:00pm, and June 6th at 8:00pm. Please email ngroton@amda.edu to request tickets.
Chloe Estabrook
Snohomish, Washington
Samantha Smiles and the Neo-Romantic Bloody Love Spiral
18:00 / Horror, Comedy, Romance
When a suicidal filmmaker desperate for recognition meets her local serial killer, she blackmails him to become a new kind of movie star: victim of a consensual snuff film. Only, she doesn’t expect to fall in love along the way.
“My mission is to have my work serve as a kind of bat signal for unlikable women. My aim is to explore the terror and triumphs of womanhood, with a touch a pink.”
Chloe Estabrook is the human equivalent of a blood covered chainsaw wrapped in bubblegum pink bows. Bringing a small town PNW spookiness and charm to everything she creates, Chloe is a lover of the English language and lifelong writer. From writing her own children’s books to feature length screenplays, Chloe is focused on writing female driven stories about the blood, guts, love, humor, and horror of being a woman.
Kiara Ou
Queens, New York
The Haunting On Frat Row
13:00 / Comedy Horror
When a summoning goes wrong and an 80s frat boy possesses a girl, he attempts to escape the restraint of a pubescent body while her friends kidnap him to help them gain boyfriends.
“I’m graduating with big plans and dreams! I’m excited to work as a gaffer, advance my company, make films, and travel the world, letting myself blossom to what the world has to offer.”
Kiara Ou is female queer asian filmmaker. Yes, minority in many aspects but she conquers her goals and gives representation to people like her. She moved around her whole life from China, New York, Sacramento, basically everywhere. Her directing style focuses on the psychology of humans and human interaction. But when the sun sets, Kiara is a Gaffer who started as a technician in theatre. She has good eye for color and shadow theory. She’s a very hard and dedicated worker who can get things done. But watch out! She’ll probably will get a song stuck in your head.
Georgia Rose
Boston, Massachusetts
Over My Dead Body
12:35 / Comedy
When the hungover screw-up of the family is forced to attend her great aunt’s Shiva, she struggles against her overbearing mother, stuck-up sister, and drunk grandmother. Can she make it through the day without adding another body to the mix?
“My goal is to be the commander of the new era of Hollywood focused on equality, authenticity, and girlhood. Taking over Hollywood first, the world next... What? Like it’s hard?”
Georgia Rose is a natural born leader, director and HBIC. Basically like if a cult leader was a 5’1 blonde girl in cowboy boots, Georgia is able to command attention and lead a room all while leaving behind a girly sparkle along the way. Georgia is a talented director, producer, and even first AD when she leans into the cult leader bit. Georgia has successfully produced and directed multiple short films including work with stunts, intimacy coordination, and SAG-AFTRA. Georgia is a determined director, leading shorts with color coordinated chainsaws and even been able to successfully direct a cat. Described as a “GEN Z JOHN HUGHES” Georgia is focused on ushering in a new era of film focused on girlhood, kindness, and equality. Georgia Rose wants to change the world, one female driven film at a time.
Julian Vogel
Normal, Illinois
Lamb of Bedlam
17:51 / Psychological Horror, Fantasy
When a heavily-suggestible hypochondriac's plights are ignored by her deadbeat doctor, she must perform her pain to him in a masochistic freakshow run by the same asylum keeping her sick.
“I thank everyone who has supported me and my absurd visions. I can’t wait to continue making my little lunatic fairytales for little freaks like me.”
Julian Vogel is a Writer/Director/DP with the special kind of misfiring of neurons that makes the beautiful strange, and the strange beautiful. Through his works, he equally plays the alluring Siren as he does the quaint Provocateur, lulling his audiences into trance, lowering their defenses to make room in even the most rigid of minds for new ideas to present themselves. Guided by his deep interest in Jungian Psychology, Julian is enamored by the archetypal nature of the mind. Through his works, he taps into deep, unconscious aspects of the human condition, illuminating the veiled strangers in ourselves.