Amy Bodman

Amy Bodman was born in Detroit, Michigan and moved to Toronto, Canada in 1980. Bodman’s first film Tree Tale is a 12-minute meditative experimental drama about a girl who spends a night in a tree. Screened at the Independent Film and Video Alliance in Quebec City, the Montreal Film Festival, the Videotron Youth Festival and Cinematheque Ontario at the Art Gallery of Ontario. Available through the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, Toronto. Her film The Duration of Life and Other Tales from the Grimms is a 45-minute experimental drama that uses seven of Grimms’ more obscure fairytales to explore the relationship between land and people, youth and ageing and imagination and film. Screenings include the Vancouver International Film Festival, the International Fair of Young Filmmakers in Spain, the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Centre in Buffalo, the International Storytellers’ Festival in Toronto, the Yorkton Short Film Festival in Saskatchewan, the Canadian Film Celebration in Calgary, the Athens Film Festival in Ohio, the Emerson Umbrella for the Arts, and the Gaslight Theatre in Massachusetts. Also screened at the University of Toronto (Innis Film Society), University of Guelph, Ryerson University and was part of legendary filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s curriculum at the University of Colorado. Available through the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, Toronto. She directed, co-wrote and co-produced Dry Bones: Christianity in Transition, a two-part educational documentary exploring Christianity in modern times. Dry Bones was commissioned by Complex Productions and distributed by Films for the Humanities & Sciences and Films Media Group in Princeton, NJ. The Limits of What We Know is Amy Bodman’s first feature-length documentary. Filmed in 1993 after a four-year drought, The Limits of What We Know is an evocative and informative portrait of Zimbabwe and its people at a specific time.