Short Film
Log-line: After 12 years, a failing actress returns to her hometown to attend her ex-boyfriend's tiki-themed funeral where she plans to tell his best friend she's in love with him, only when she arrives she finds her ex still alive.
Written & Directed by Amy DePaola
Prod Co’s: Pink Among Men Productions Inc., Brooklyn Quarter and Van106 Lighting and Grip
Official Selections [as of Aug. 2023]: Dances With Films (LA), Picture’s Up Film Festival, No Coast Film Festival, Broad Humor Film Festival, We Make Movies International Film Festival.
Short
Log-line: An immigrant artist is driven to the point of exhaustion by her boss and impulsively quits her day job. Encouraged by her college BFF, she accepts an invitation to join the Plant Moms of New York- a parenting club started by a famous influencer for folks raising house plants in the concrete jungle.
Written by Erin Bradford & Liv Admunsen
Directed by Amy DePaola
Prod Co: Pink Among Men Productions Inc
Official Selections: Austin Film Festival, Catalyst Content Festival, San Diego Latino Film Festival, Philadelphia Latino Film Festival
Short Film
Log-line: A violent assault forces a 30 year-old bartender to re-examine her life and place in the world. Based on true events.
Written & Directed by Amy DePaola
Starring Amy DePaola
Prod Co’s: Pink Among Men Productions Inc, and Charlestown A/V
Official Selections: Provincetown International Film Festival, Woods Hole Film Festival, IndieWorks WINNER Best Director, FilmInvasionLA WINNER Best Short Film, Garden State Film Festival, YoFi Film Festival, Shorts Night, New York No Limits WINNER Art of the Short, NewFilmmakersNY, Buffalo International Film Festival, New Haven International Film Festival, Yoni Film Festival.
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Log-line: In a parallel time period where the government monitors genetic matching, a chronically ill but not visibly ill woman downloads a dating app to her monitoring device in an attempt to find a partner and secure health insurance. But when the app turns out to be a micro managing tool of the system's plan, she revolts, resulting in a lack of access to her own health status.
Written and Directed by Amy DePaola
Produced by Ashley George
Prod Co’s: Pink Among Men Productions, Folder 12 Films
Official Selections: Bowery Film Festival, Female Voices Rock Film Festival, ShockFest Film Festival
Season 1, Episodes 1-5
Log-line: The daughter of a Boston hitman steps into his shoes after he dies.
Directed by Amy DePaola
Written by Caitlin Graham
Produced by Caitlin Graham and Lindsey Garafalo
Official Selections: Philadelphia Independent Film Festival WINNER Best Director, New York Women Film and TV Festival
Short
Log-line: A nostalgic woman confronts a stranger in her house, one who ultimately reveals their shared history and the love they have for one another.
Written by Christina Toth
Produced by Campbell Smyes, Robin Galloway, Amy DePaola
Directed by Julia Ngeow
Official Selections: Salute Your Shorts Film Festival, Nice Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Pittsburgh Shorts Film Festival, Atlanta ShortsFest WINNER, LA Shorts Film Festival WINNER, No Coast Film Festival
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Log-line: A crisis bubbles to the surface and threatens to break up a family when three middle-aged sisters are turned away by their mother during their first visit to her new Assisted Living Facility.
Written & Directed by Derek Brown
Produced by Derek Brown, Alex Knapp and Amy DePaola
Official Selections: No Coast Film Festival, Coney Island Film Festival, New York Independent Film Festival, Golden Door Film Festival
Digital Series, episodes 1-5
Written and Directed by Misha Calvert
Produced by Amy DePaola
Distributor: BRIC TV
Digital Series, 5 episodes
Log-line: Kieran McCullay is HIV positive. It's been months since he found out, and he hasn't found the courage to tell anyone other than a ridiculously handsome social worker. Even his best friend, Allie, doesn't know about his HIV status. Kieran has a good heart, but his status is starting to isolate him from the most important people in his life. How long can he keep this secret? Forever? Or will he reach a breaking point? These are just some of the questions posed by the pilot episode of Unsure/Positive. Titled 'Some Weird Rock Hudson Type of Shit,' and intended as the first chapter in a series about an HIV positive protagonist-- something that hasn't really been seen on the small screen. On the big screen, HIV positive protagonists usually die at the end. Writer/Director Christian Kiley, who is also living with HIV, wanted to make a series about an HIV positive person who doesn't die at the end. Like so many other people living with HIV today, Kieran's life will go on. And until there's a cure, he's going to have to stay positive. Pun. Intended.
Written and Directed by Christian Kiley
Produced by Amy DePaola
Distributor: RevryTV
Short
Log-line: A singer searches for a guest at her first show fronting for her dead lover's band.
Written and Directed by Logan Freeman
Produced by Amy DePaola
Official Selections: Beverly Hills Film Festival, Sidewalk Film Festival, Green Mountain Film Festival
Short
Log-line: On her thirtieth birthday Laila wants to celebrate her way: masterbating, smoking pot and drinking with friends. A phone call changes all of that.
Written and Directed by Amy DePaola
Made during the MFA program at Emerson College.