Director, Writer and Producer at AFIN

Biography

Amanda Kaye was born in Brisbane, Australia who graduated from Griffith Film School, Queensland College of Art with Honours. Her Honours short film Ceiling Skies was her directorial debut, which screened at numerous film festivals around the world, such as Los Angeles Women’s International Film Festival, under the name Amanda Henshall. Amanda then embraced the art of documentary by becoming production manager for Faraway Productions Pty Ltd and worked on a range of observational feature length documentaries for a period of 6 years. During that period, she was a freelance Production Manager/Coordinator and worked on a variety of documentary series and a TVC for Vodafone. After years working in documentary, the urge to direct a narrative film has seen Amanda delving back into writing, directing and producing her next short film, Norm. Amanda is now writing and developing her next 3 short film projects.