Self-Made Men

Amy Goldstein is a director/writer of music videos including Rod Stewart’s Downtown Train, episodic TV with Veronica Clare for Lifetime, and the features The Silencer, East of Astarring Adam Arkin, and Rashida Jones (Burning Vision award at Santa Barbara IFF), and the documentary The Hooping Life introduced by Shaquille O’Neal released by Cinedigm. She wrote original pilots for HBO, CBS, Fox, Showtime, and MTV and a hip-hop musical for Jersey Films. She is currently developing a music documentary with singer/songwriter/activist Kate Nash. She is a member of the DGA, the WGA and served on the board of Outfest. She’s an HBO/DGA and Louis. B Mayer Fellow and Best Director of NYU’s Graduate Film School.

Anouchka van Riel started her career in finance at Activision where she was responsible for analyzing movie franchises (Ice Age 2, Scarface, Eragon…) and evaluating new publishing and distribution deals. She founded Span Productions with Amy Goldstein in 2008, a production company delivering independent films and series with an edge. She produced the feature documentary The Hooping Life. She is currently developing a documentary on the cutting edge of today’s music industry with singer/songwriter/feminist Kate Kash. Since 2004, she has also been an organizer of the largest French film festival in the world, COLCOA that promotes French artists and their films in the USA. She graduated from ESCP Europe and studied at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.