Biography

Amy Bench is an award-winning director and cinematographer whose work spans documentary and fiction films.

Her film "More Than I Want to Remember," premiered at SXSW in 2022, won top awards at Tribeca and Hot Docs, the NAACP Image Award, and was Shortlisted for the 2023 Academy Awards. The film is released by Paramount Plus. Most recently, she directed "Breaking Silence" with co-director Annie Silverstein. The film won several festival awards, qualifying for 2024 Oscar consideration, and is available on PBS through Independent Lens. Her latest project is the Sundance-supported feature, "Walker."

As a cinematographer her credits include "Trans in America" (Emmy, 2019), "Uprooted" (HBO Max, 2021), "Bad at Dancing" (Silver Bear, Berlinale, 2015), "Holy Hell" (Sundance, 2016), "Running with Beto" (SXSW, 2019) and The Librarians (Sundance, 2025). Her camera work has won an Emmy, 2 Webby awards, and has screened at festivals including Berlin, SXSW, Sundance, The New York Film Festival, and at MOMA/PS1.

Her 2019 film "A Line Birds Cannot See" won awards at SXSW, and is currently featured online on The New Yorker.

She is a member of the International Collective of Female Cinematographers (ICFC), Documentary Cinematographers Allicance (DCA), and the ICOSA Collective.
- IMDb mini biography by: Amy Bench