Spring 2024

Amy Hobby is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning producer of independent films. In 2011, Amy co-founded Tangerine Entertainment, a production company working exclusively with female-identifying film directors. She is also the former Executive Director of the Tribeca Film Institute and a current co-founder of Distribution Advocates, a movement to reclaim the means of distribution for independent storytellers.  

While at the Shorenstein Center, Amy oriented her research around the question of how to find audiences for a wider range of quality stories in an attention economy.