Amy Goldstein

Amy Goldstein graduated from Hampshire College with a BA in semiotics and from NYU Film School. Between college and film school she managed Jean Pagliuso's fashion photography studio, while photographing ads for Patricia Field's stores, staging women disrobing atop bulldozers. Amy put herself through film school dressing windows at Macys. She was a Louis B. Mayer fellow at NYU film school. Her short, "Commercial for Murder" (1990), screened at the Berlin Film Festival and was distributed theatrically in a collection of shorts. Her thesis film, Because the Dawn (1988), was presented as the American Independents at the Toronto Film Festival. After school, Amy directed music videos for artists from around the world, including Rod Stewart's "Downtown Train". She also directed for Lifetime Television Network on the series Veronica Clare (1991) about a sultry female detective. She then directed the feature film The Silencer (1992), which she co-wrote with Scott Kraft, and they went on to dev