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Amanda Kramer is an award-winning writer/director who was named one of Indiewire's "Directors Who Will Define the Next Decade," alongside Chloe Zhao, Greta Gerwig, and Ari Aster. Her latest film PLEASE BABY PLEASE (starring Andrea Riseborough, Harry Melling, Karl Glusman, and Demi Moore) recently opened the 2022 International Film Festival Rotterdam to rave reviews, headlining a filmmaker focus  section that included all of her past work as well as the premiere of her one-woman feature GIVE ME PITY! (starring Sophie Von Haselberg), which sold to Utopia. PLEASE BABY PLEASE also won the Grand Jury Prize at Outfest and will be released theatrically this fall by Music Box Films. 

Kramer’s next film TRAUM is a femme-hysteria thriller that will star Andrea Riseborough as a Holocaust survivor falling into radical group therapy and environmental terrorism in the 70s American Midwest. Claes Bang is also attached to star, and the film is being co-represented by CAA and WME. 

Her feature film PARIS WINDOW opened the Women Texas Film Festival and won the jury prize for Creative Vision at the DTLA Film Festival. Her feature film LADYWORLD was selected for the Frontierés Buyers Showcase at the Marche du Film at Cannes. The film had its US Premiere at Fantastic Fest ('18) and its International Premiere at London BFI Film Festival. LADYWORLD also showed at Denver International Film Festival, SF Indie Fest, TIFF Next  Wave, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival, and Sydney Film Fest. Distributed by Cleopatra Entertainment, LADYWORLD had its theatrical and streaming release in August 2019.

Kramer's short films BARK, INTERVENE, and SIN ULTRA have played at Fantastic Fest, Chicago Underground Film Festival and Boston Underground Film Festival's Dispatches from the Underground. Her screenplays have been accepted into IFP’s Emerging Filmmakers program and Frontierés International Co-Production Market in Brussels. Kramer's music videos have premiered on Vogue, LA Record, Flaunt Magazine, and Complex.