Amie is an accomplished film producer/director. Specializing in film and video for NGO and international development organizations, Amie has more recently forayed into screenwriting, developing stories from her documentary background into narrative feature films. Her first feature-length script is set in present-day Kenya, JUA KALI (HARSH SUN) and was recently selected to participate in the 2007 Film Independent Director’s Lab, with Amie attached as Director, produced by Trish Dolman in Canada, Screen Siren Pictures (Flower and Garnet),  Tracey Nicole Bing, formerly of Warner Independent Pictures (March of the Penguins) with Jim Denault attached as the Cinematographer (Maria Full of Grace, Boys Don't Cry), and the actor Idris Elba attached to play a lead role (The Wire, Daddy's Little Girl, The Reaping, Sometimes in April).

She is presently in production on the feature documentary, AMANI NOMA, A HARD PEACE, which follows the aftermath of the Kenyan post-election violence through the eyes of a teenage girl who was raped and left for dead. The film is co-produced with Kenyan television and the actress Mumbi Kaigwa (Constant Gardner).

Past films include NO SWEAT, (2006) about bad-boy clothing manufacturer American Apparel, which recently premiered at the AFI Film Festival and was broadcast on KQED and Current TV; FALLON, NV: DEADLY OASIS (2004) about a childhood leukemia cluster, an ITVS funded film broadcast on PBS; and UNCOMMON GROUND: FROM LOS ANGELES TO SOUTH AFRICA (1994).  These films have won numerous awards, including the International Documentary David Wolper Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Media Grant, the SONY/Streisand Award for emerging female filmmakers, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Peace Grant, Pioneer Fund, Paul Robeson Fund and the A.F.I. Independent Film and Videomakers Award. She also received a National Arts Council grant to teach in Japan and Singapore, and to show her work.

Amie also directs political television ads for, working for the California Democratic party and political consultant Parke Skelton of SG&A Campaigns.

Prior to her film career, she lived and worked in Kenya as a teacher and health-communications consultant for the Ford Foundation and Care, International and continues to sponsor a street theater group of homeless AIDS orphans in Nairobi.  Amie graduated from Yale University (B.A., English and Theater, 1985); and U.C.L.A (MFA, Film, 1992).