Amy Ziering

Amy Ziering

Amy Ziering is a two-time Emmy Award–winning and Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker. Her most recent film, THE BLEEDING EDGE, is a critically acclaimed Netflix original investigative feature on the medical device industry that, shortly after its release, prompted Bayer to pull a featured product off the market, catalyzed a worldwide debate about regulation and patient safety, and led the FDA to issue a pledge to overhaul its device oversight policies. Her previous film, THE HUNTING GROUND, premiered on CNN, won the Producer’s Guild of America’s Stanley Kramer Award and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song as well as the 2016 Emmy for Exceptional Merit - Documentary Filmmaking. Her earlier film, THE INVISIBLE WAR, broke the story of the epidemic of rape in the US military, won two 2014 Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism, and was nominated for an Oscar. The film spurred Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta to announce significant policy changes and catalyzed the passing of 35 pieces of reform legislation. Providing a national platform for the voices of assault survivors in both these films directly helped to usher in the #metoo movement. Prior to that, Ziering’s film OUTRAGE— an indictment of the hypocrisy of powerful, closeted politicians and the institutions that protect them, received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Investigative Journalism, and helped to shift the end the media’s double standard in its reporting on the private lives of non heterosexual politicians. Ziering also co-directed and produced DERRIDA, a documentary about the world-renowned French philosopher. Ziering also executive produced Kirsten Johnson’s award winning and Oscar shortlisted CAMERAPERSON, and Josh Fox’s AWAKE - A Dream from Standing Rock. She is the 2012 recipient of the Nestor Almendros Prize for Courage and Filmmaking, the 2013 Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize, the 2013 Gracie Award for Outstanding Producer - News/Non-Fiction and the 2013 Peabody Award. She has worked with musical artists such as Academy Award winning composer, Ryuichi Sakamoto; Grammy award winner, Mary J. Blige; nine time Academy Award nominated songwriter, Diane Warren; and global superstar, Lady Gaga. She is a frequent commentator on CNN and MSNBC, and has appeared on The Daily Show and Good Morning America. She is currently in production on some new films on equity, assault and parity in the entertainment industries and has a series in development at HBO and a feature in development with Craig Gillespie at Tobey McGuire’s Material Pictures.
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