Joseph Amenta
Joseph Amenta is a Canadian film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut feature film Soft premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]
Joseph Amenta | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 2000s-present |
| Notable work | Flood, Soft |
Prior to Soft, Amenta directed a number of short films, the most noted of which, Flood, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and included Tynomi Banks in its cast.[3]
Amenta is non-binary and uses gender-neutral pronouns.[4]
Filmography
- Growing Up Cooter - 2013
- Wild Youth - 2015
- Cherry Cola - 2018
- Haus - 2018
- Flood - 2019
- Soft - 2022
References
- Peter Knegt, "Joseph Amenta imagines a world where queer kids are free in their new film Soft". Here & Queer (CBC Arts), August 23, 2023.
- Jeremy Kay, "Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird Al" Yankovic leads TIFF Midnight Madness; Discovery, Wavelength sections also unveiled" Archived 2022-08-05 at the Wayback Machine. Screen Daily, August 4, 2022.
- "Exclusive Interview: Flood Filmmaker Joseph Amenta". The Queer Review. October 30, 2019. Archived from the original on October 1, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
- Nicole Thompson, "From 'My Policeman' to 'Soft,' TIFF films offer nuanced exploration of queer lives". St. Albert Gazette, September 3, 2022.
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