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Amy Seimetz

Amy Seimetz
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Writer, Producer, Director, Actress, Editor
Known for	The Off-Hours

Amy Lynne Seimetz is an American writer, producer, director, editor and actress.

Amy Seimetz is widely regarded as one of the most ubiquitous presences in independent cinema. [1] Seimetz first came to prominence producing and directing shorts and independent films. Most notably associate producing Barry Jenkins' Mecidine For Melancholy which was nominated for Gotham and Independent Spirit Awards, after playing at South By Southwest and the Toronto International Film Festival. She became notable as an actress after her performance in Joe Swanberg's Alexander The Last, a Noah Baumbach-produced film which premiered at SXSW. This was the first of three films she worked on under the direction of Mumblecore king Joe Swanberg, including Silver Bullets (Berlin, SXSW) and Autoerotic. She continued her streak of solid indie performances in Lawrence Levine's "Gabi On The Roof In July", Lena Dunham's "Tiny Furniture" (SXSW), Kentucker Audley's "Open Five", and David Robert Mitchell's "Myth of the American Sleepover" (Cannes).

Her performance in Adam Wingard's horror thriller "A Horrible Way To Die" won her the Best Actress award at Fantastic Fest, the biggest genre film festival in the US. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews. The New York Times said "the actors bear up remarkably well, with Ms. Seimetz uncomfortably credible as a woman whose precarious sobriety is about to become the least of her problems." [2]

Seimetz is probably most known for her performance in the Megan Griffiths drama "The Off-Hours", which premiered at the Sundance film festival in 2011. The Los Angeles Times hailed her the "MVP of Sundance", for not just her performance in the film, but also her plethora of other filmmaking talents. "Every year, the Sundance Film Festival has a semi-official "It" girl who encapsulates the festival's cocktail of discovery and buzz. But what about someone who embodies the independent film world's sense of community and the pitch-in spirit of collaboration, something like a most valuable player? That prize might well go to Amy Seimetz." [3] The Hollywood Reporter singled her out as one of the breakouts of Sundance that year, alongside Brit Marling, Elizabeth Olsen, and Felicity Jones. "As a late-night truck-stop waitress and orphaned lost soul, Seimetz invests Off Hours’ dead-end world of tiny tragedies with a hidden, hard-won strength." [4]

Seimetz rounded out an all-star cast in the Tribeca Film Festival premiere Revenge For Jolly directed by Chadd Harbold. The ensemble cast included Kristen Wiig, Elijah Wood, Oscar Isaac, Garrett Dillahunt, Ryan Phillippe, Gillian Jacobs, Adam Brody and Brian Petsos. The film marked a reunion for Seimetz with her co-stars Wiig, Dilahunt, and Petsos from the Chadd Harbold short film "One Night Only".

In 2012 Seimetz made her narrative feature directorial debut with her Floridian thriller Sun Don't Shine, which she also wrote, produced, and co-edited. The film premiered at the South By Southwest film festival in the Emerging Visions section to rave reviews. The movie starred Kate Lyn Sheil and Kentucker Audley as a troubled couple on the run from something very bad. Time Out Chicago said "the prolific actress’s debut feature reveals its plot with a minimum of exposition, in a way that feels alternately affected and realistic", and that Sun Don't Shine was a smarter template than Joss Whedon's "Cabin In The Woods" which also premiered at SXSW the same year. [5] Indiewire wrote "her terrific directorial debut "Sun Don't Shine" was a brilliant noir exercise with less mumbling than raw brawls. She pinned me to my Alamo Drafthouse seat and the film kept me there for the next 82 minutes." [6]

Filmography

As Director

• "Sun Don't Shine" (2012)
• "Round Town Girls" (2009) (short)
• "We Saw Such Things" (2008) (documentary short)
• "The Unseen Kind-Hearted Beast" (2005) (short)

As Writer

• "Sun Don't Shine" (2012)

As Producer

• "Sun Don't Shine" (2012)
• "No Matter What" (2011)
• "Silver Bullets" (2011)
• "Dish & The Spoon" (2011)
• "We Saw Such Things" (2008) (documentary short)
• "Medicine For Melancholy" (2008)
• "The Unseen Kind-Hearted Beast" (2005) (short)

As Actress

• 9 Full Moons (2012)
• The Proxy (2012)
• Be Good (2012)
• Unicorns" (2012)
• "Revenge For Jolly" (2012)
• "Sun Don't Shine" (2012)
• "You're Next" (2011)
• "Autoerotic" (2011)
• "Small Pond" (2011)
• "No Matter What" (2011)
• "Silver Bullets (2011)
• "The Dish & The Spoon (2011)
• "The Off-Hours (2011)
• "A Horrible Way To Die" (2010)
• "Bitter Feast (2010)
• "The Myth of the American Sleepover" (2010)
• "Open Five" (2010)
• "Tiny Furniture" (2010)
• "Gabi On The Roof In July" (2010)
• "One Night Only" (2009)
• "Alexander The Last" (2009)
• "Wristcutters: A Love Story" (2009)

External links

• EnterTheCircus/sandbox at IMDb

Category:Living people Category:American film actors Category:American documentary filmmakers