Talent Guide

Amy Hobby

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2013, Grants and Awards 2013, Grants and Awards 2014

Bio

Amy Hobby has been producing award-winning theatrical films for nearly 20 years. Her films have been released by top distributors, including Sony, Lionsgate, HBO, Miramax, Sony Pictures Classics, IFC, and Magnolia.
Hobby has had seven features and documentaries premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, including the Jury Prize winner Secretary (Lionsgate). Other feature producing credits include: Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (Magnolia), Hamlet (Miramax), Sunday (Cine 360), recipient of Sundance Grand Jury Award and Un Certain Regard at Cannes, and Nadja (October Films), Executive Produced by David Lynch. Hobby recently had four of her films acquired for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and won a Sloan Foundation Grant for development of a new film project called Zeroes and Ones.

In 2012, Hobby completed production on three films. Love, Marilyn, a documentary directed by Academy Award nominated filmmaker Liz Garbus, which screened at the Telluride, Toronto, and London film festivals and will premiere on HBO in June 2013. Hobby’s low budget feature Gayby played at over 20 festivals, winning numerous audience awards. Shepard & Dark premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, won jury awards at several festivals and will be released theatrically in fall 2013 by Music Box Films.

Hobby recently formed Tangerine Entertainment, an audacious new company that seeks to produce and provide marketing and outreach for critically acclaimed films with a rigorous focus on female directors and exceptional roles for women.

Current Project

Third Girl from the Left

Logline

Third Girl From The Left is the story of the other side of Hollywood in the Seventies; of what it means to be black, sexy, smart, and full of dreams in a land where 'blaxploitation' is as literal as it sounds. As intense and serious as it is fun and fabulous, Third Girl From The Left is a compelling saga of love, family secrets, and the ambitions of mothers and daughters.