— AWARDS, HONORS, AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS —

FUREVER (Film)

• FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS:
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  • Brooklyn Film Festival (Audience Award, Best Documentary)
  • Las Vegas Film Festival (Best Feature Documentary)
  • iD FEST, Winner: (Best Feature)
  • DocuWest, Winner: (Best of Fest, Emerging Filmmaker Award)
  • Kingston Film Festival, Winner (Best Feature Documentary)
  • Delta Film & Video Festival (Best Feature Documentary)
  • DocuFest Atlanta (Best Director, Feature Documentary)
  • Nevada International Film Festival (Best Feature)
    
    
• FUREVER toured in over 60 film festivals worldwide in 2013 including Hot Docs, Warsaw Film Festival, Hollywood Film Festival, Seattle International, Cleveland International, Napa Valley Film Fest, New Orleans, Brooklyn, Big Sky, Hawaii, Indie Memphis, among many others.
  
  
• FUREVER is Available on iTunes, Amazon, GooglePlay, Xbox, Playstation, Vudu, and Cinema Now.
  
  
• FUREVER’s current distributors are FilmBuff, for digital & V.O.D., and PBS, for International and U.S. broadcast.
  
  
• FUREVER is currently broadcasting on Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, Poland’s TVN Style, Australia’s SBS TV, and on TV in other territories.
  
  
• Director Amy Finkel was picked as one of 6 directors for the 2013/14 “On Screen/In Person” film tour in Oct 2013, funded by the NEA and MidAtlantic Arts Foundation
  
  
• FUREVER is also currently on the educational curriculum in the veterinary schools at Tufts University and Washington State University. When I complete the DVD (with academic extras), it’ll be incorporated into the curricula of many universities.
  
  
• Amy Finkel raised 200% of her initial funding ($10,000 from 189 backers), for her FUREVER Kickstarter campaign. Later she secured an Executive Producer to give over $100,000 to make the film. Click here to view her Kickstarter campaign.
  

MISCELLANEOUS

• Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart (Short Documentary) was nominated for the Pare Lorentz Award by the IDA (International Documentary Association), 2004
  
  
• Amy serves as documentary “Doctor” for New York Foundation for the Arts’ “Doctor’s Hours for Filmmakers.
  
  
• Amy is a frequent guest critic and speaker at Parsons the New School for Design and NYU.
  
  
• Amy served as a judge for IDA’s 2009 Documentary Achievement Awards, New York Festivals’ TV documentary division, and Film Independent’s Independent Spirit Awards.
  
  
• Amy won a “Top 25” award for Tribeca Film Festival and American Express’ 2006 15-second clips / “My Life My Card” Campaign
  
  
• “Silence” Music video she shot in stop motion for the band Takka Takka played on MTV.
  
  
• Awarded full travel-grant to screen Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart at the Guthrie Jazz Banjo Festival, May ‘04.
  
  
• Amy’s writing, photography, and films have appeared in numerous publications including: The New York Times, The Believer, The Washington Post, Gothamist, NewYork.Com, Dogster, HuffPost Live, KIRO News, Indiewire, Playboy, Jezebel, Gizmodo, Time Out NY, The SF Weekly, Indiewood/Hollywouldn’t, Film Threat, Seattle Weekly, The Stranger, Exclaim, Toronto Film Scene, Toronto Star Top 10 of Hot Docs, Seattle Times, Pretty Clever Films, Giant Freakin Robot, The Stranger: Line Out, Lost & Fond, Moviefone, Slash Film, Denver Post, Oklahoma Gazette, Memphis Flyer, and Cleveland Magazine, among many others.
  
  
• Amy won full one-year scholarship to attend the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, May 1998.
  
  
• A story Amy wrote for Gothamist about a bus ride she took with recently released prisoners was picked as one of Gothamist’s “Best of 2014,” (located at the top of the page).
  
  It also garnered the attention of Rachel Maddow, MSNBC’s Lockup, New York’s Doe Fund, Osborne Association, and numerous other prison reform/re-entry organizations (and the prison population itself). The Doe Fund is working in conjunction with Amy to help secure funding for her next feature length documentary about prison reform and recidivism.