Amanda is an Editor and First Assistant Editor with over 18 years of experience under her belt.
She recently cut her first feature documentary Geoff Dixon : Portraits of Us, an intimate look at Aotearoa New Zealand artist Geoff Dixon, which had its debut at the NZIFF. Other recent endeavours include short documentary Ultimately Lacks Polish, featuring Aotearoa New Zealand poet Freya Daly Sadgrove, Porcelain God and Last Night I Dreamt That I Shot Myself, music videos by Wellington band Ingrid and the Ministers, social media content for the feature film Muru, and Beyond White Guilt (previously known as Land of the Long WHITE Cloud), a seven-part web series exploring what it means to be Pākehā.
Earlier in her career she cut half-hour episodes of Living the Wildlife - a TV documentary series directed by Emmy-award winning cinematographer Colin Stafford Johnson, No Guts, No Glory - a half-hour TV documentary which screened on ESPN and RTE, and numerous inserts for long-running Irish cultural affairs TV series Nationwide.
Her first documentary, Redder Than Red - a 15-minute film about the first female breakdancer in the UK - was co-directed by world-renowned photographers Martha Cooper and Nika Kramer and screened at various festivals in the UK, Germany, Holland, New York, and Los Angeles.
Equally at home helping to steer the editorial ship on domestic or international productions, her feature film credits as First Assistant Editor include Bad Behaviour (2023), Cousins (2020), Poppy (2020), Reunion (2020) and Blumhouse film, Black Christmas (2019). While her TV/Streaming credits include AppleTV+ series Mr. Corman (2021) and TVNZ’s Wellington Paranormal - Season 2 and Season 3 (2019 - 2020). She was Second Assistant Editor on Universal's Mortal Engines (2018) and Paramount’s Ghost In The Shell (2017).
She got her foot in the door of the NZ film industry through Editorial for the behind-the-scenes documentaries on The Hobbit Trilogy, starting as an assistant editor and progressing to additional editor - this also included a 9-week stint in Los Angeles where both the NZ and US editorials came together to complete the final content for the extended box-sets.
Based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, she is a keen collaborator with Kathleen Winter and Clockwork Creative Productions and is particularly interested in cutting content around LGBTQIA+ stories, mental health, equality, and multiculturalism.