AmandaRobertshawe
- Director
After beginning her career as a television journalist, Amanda Robertshawe has gone on to direct acclaimed documentaries on challenging issues like addiction (The Dark Side of the Moon), confronting death from cancer (My Name is Jane) and sexual responsibility (Is There Anybody Out There?). Her films reflect a fascination with the emotional consequences of life experiences.
Screenography
Biography
Amanda Robertshawe intentionally uses film to challenge prejudice and conventional stereotypes. “To be able to use film to do that,” she says, “presents challenges and also responsibilities”.
Since leaving state television in 1990, Robertshawe has directed documentaries, educational and corporate campaigns, plus commercials for both broadcast and the web. In each medium she has often bypassed conventional voiceover narration, in order to let the talent tell their own stories. Though Robertshawe finds working without a script a much greater challenge, she likes “the resonance which comes with the more intimate results.”
Awards
2000 International Health & Medical Film Festival (New York)
Winner of Freddy Award in Cancer category: for My Name is Jane
Nominated (one of two nominees, from 1000+ entries) for the Michael E DeBakey Award: for My Name is Jane
“It was well-judged, with deft camera work and delicate but pointed interrogation .... It will be one of the year’s most memorable programmes.”