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May 27, 2021 · She serves on the Labor Committee of DPA, she was selected for RespectAbility’s Entertainment Professionals Lab, Summer 2021, for Realscreen’s 2022 DIALOG Mentorship Program, and for DOC NYC’s 2022 Documentary New Leaders program.
Amanda Upson: Employment Lawyer to Feature Film Producer. Attorney, Founder of Tuck and Roll Productions. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-u-2b418. Bio: Upson is a successful attorney turned film producer and the Founder of Tuck and Roll Productions.
In this episode, we discuss disability and accessibility on camera and behind the scenes with Amanda Upton, the director of Fwd-Doc,a global, intersectional ...
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- The Telly Awards
- Accessibility as A Creative Asset with Kiah Amara and Asha Chai-Chang
- Essential Audio Description with Michele Spitz, Chris Snyder, and Alex Howard
- Authentic and Accessible Casting with Danielle Pretsfelder-Demchick
Kiah Amara and Asha Chai-Chang are both alumni of the RespectAbility Lab who now work as Production Accessibility Coordinators (PAC). Amara runs IndieVISIBLE, “a production group and artist collective empowering radical representation and intersectionality in the media industry.” During their talk, Amara emphasized the need to shift mindsets from w...
The next panel, moderated by Michele Spitz, taught participants about the importance of audio description. Audio description tracks allow people who are blind or have low vision to fully enjoy visual media, including movies, television shows, and videos, by verbally describing what is being shown on screen. Spitz owns an audio description consultat...
Danielle Pretsfelder-Demchick is an active member of the New York casting community, committed to increasing inclusion, accessibility, and authentic representation in the industry. When speaking with Lab Fellows about casting, she emphasized that casting directors must think outside the box and ask questions like “why can’t a disabled actor play a ...
Jan 4, 2018 · College of Arts & Sciences alumna Amanda Upson traded the world of billable hours for a new career producing films. (Submitted photo) When she was a student at the University of Virginia, Amanda Upson would sit in the dining hall with fellow students and professors who lived at Brown College and talk for hours about anything and everything.
Dec 27, 2017 · Unleashed in Denver, Colorado, Amanda Upson began her film and media career in 2013 after fleeing big firm law practice and setting out for the wilder west of film production. Her outstanding reputation in the legal field and her unparalleled ability to get stuff done led to a serendipitous partnering with Little Turtle Pictures.
Amanda Upson transitioned from legal practice in labor and employment law to become an independent producer. Her first film, MAGNUM OPUS, a spy thriller with timely themes, premiered at the 2018 Virginia Film Festival.
