Amy-Joyce Hastings
About
Amy-Joyce Hastings is an award winning short film writer/director who grew up on film sets as a professional actress from a young age. Having worked during her early career with such esteemed directors as Pat O'Connor, Agnieszka Holland and Alison Macleane, she learned through osmosis how a film set operates. To augment this learning she shadowed film & television director Graham Cantwell on a number of productions in recent years. She earned a Distinction at Trinity College, graduating with a Bachelor in Theatre Studies from the Samuel Beckett Centre and got her first taste for directing in theatre productions. Since then she has founded her own short film production company called 22:22 Productions, as well as being Co-Founder and Creative Director for partnership Film Venture London. Film Venture's productions The Callback Queen and Lily (for which she won acting plaudits) have a combined three Irish Film & Television Academy Award nominations since 2016. As writer and director her most recent film QED, a 17 minute human rights drama produced by Filmbase, premiered at the 29th Galway Film Fleadh before going on to win ‘Best Overall Short Film’ at the 2018 Santa Fe Film F...
