Amy Miller is an award-winning director, producer and writer based in Montréal. Her feature films as director include Manufacturing The Threat, Tomorrow’s Power, No Land. No Food. No Life., The Carbon Rush and Myths for Profit. Her documentaries have been screened at festivals throughout the world, and have been broadcast in over two dozen countries and are included in the library catalogues of hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. She remains dedicated to creating documentaries for transformative social change.
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- Best Travel Doc, MUÖI, Bangkok Documentary Film Festival, 2022, Thailand
- SODEC-RIDM Producer Lab Hot Docs scholarship, 2019 Hot Docs Toronto
- Special Jury award, GAZA: HEALTH UNDER SIEGE, Oaxaca Film Festival, 2018, Oaxaca
- Special Jury mention, TOMORROW’S POWER, GNG Green Earth Film Festival, Oct 2018
- Los Angeles Panorama award, TOMORROW’S POWER, Hanoi International Film Festival, Sept 2018, Hanoi, Vietnam
- Best feature doc, TOMORROW’S POWER, Sydney International Film Festival, 2017, Australia
- Special Jury mention, TOMORROW’S POWER, Eco-Zine Film Festival, 2017, Zaragoza Spain
- Crossroads/Images from Global South Grand Prize, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, 2015, Festival del Terre, Italy
- Prix du Vautour, THE CARBON RUSH, Festival FREDD, Toulouse, France, 2015
- Best feature film, THE CARBON RUSH, Barichara Environmental Film Festival, Colombia 2014
- Les Gémeaux Special Jury mention, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, FFPE, April 2014
- 2nd pl Social Justice Oxfam/IDFA Award, NO LAND NO FOOD NO LIFE, IDFA, Nov 2013
- Special mention, Best Political Film 2013, THE CARBON RUSH, Cinema Politica Network
- Best Original Screenplay for feature doc., THE CARBON RUSH, 17th Annual MEFEST, Aug 2013
- Nominated for 2013 Yorkton Gold Sheaf Emerging Filmmaker award.
- Bell Media Fellowship, Banff World Media Festival, June 2012
- ONF-NFB Filmmakers Assistance Program recipient, June 2011
- SCAM Writers award, Montreal October 2011
- ONF-NFB Emerging Producer Scholarship RIDM, Montreal, November 2010
- Astral Media Emerging Director Scholarship Hot Docs Toronto, May 2010
- Peoples Choice Award, MYTHS FOR PROFIT Bay Street Film Festival, October 2009
- Peoples Choice Award, OUTSIDE OF EUROPE Migration Contest, CBC-RCI December 2008
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- Board Member of Doc Quebec 2022-Present
-Jury member: Festival International du Film d'Environnement 2022
-Jury member : Prix Magnus Isaacson 2022
-Jury member: Le Cinéma sous les étoiles de Funambules Média 2021
-Senior video producer at The Breach 2021
-Regards croisés- Le rôle des médias face à la crise environnementale- Ciné Vert 2021
-Can films affect social change? Amy Miller in Conversation- CBC THE BRIDGE 2020
-International Jury member: Bangkok International Documentary Awards 2020
-Board member: CUTV (Concordia University Television) 2020-Present
-Programmer: TËNK 2019-Present
-Guest speaker: Positive Planet, Cannes International Film Festival, Cannes, France 2019
-National Jury member : Gala Québec Cinema 2019
-International Jury member: SunChild Environmental Festival, Armenia 2018
-Jury member: SODEC development project selection 2017
-Programmer: Cinema Politica Network 2013-Present
-Member: Documentary Organization of Canada 2009-Present
-Board member: PRIM- Independent Producers, Directors of Montreal 2013/14/15
-Jury member: PRIM project selection- Post Production 2015
-Jury member: SODEC project selection- Production 2014
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BOOKS
"The Carbon Rush Book", 2014
Editor The Peoples Commission Manual on National (In) security September 5, 2008
Sex Tourism article in The Women's Movement Today: an Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism, Leslie Heywood (Ed) (0ct 2005) Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.
PRINT
"Land Grabs Across Canada" October 2010, The Dominion Newspaper
"Dark Anniversary: Abousfian Abdelrazik languishes under UN watch list" May 2010, The Dominion Newspaper
Dominion Newspaper
RADIO
Amy has produced over 30 hours of radio stories for various programs around the world.