Amanda Blue

Amanda Blue

Amanda is a BAFTA-nominated director with more than two decades of experience in documentary, comedy, drama and commercials. She began her career in drama, working with BAFTA and Oscar-nominated director Mike Figgis, and later produced his documentary arts films, before directing her own work.  

Early in her career, Amanda directed the award-winning documentary series Young Black Farmers (Diverse/Channel 4). In 2008, she received a BAFTA nomination in the Director – Factual category at the BAFTA Television Craft Awards for Prescott: The Class System and Me (Tiger Aspect). Other factual programming includes Twincredibles (Blast Films/BBC), The Town That Caught Tourette’s (Raw/Channel 4), The Big School Lottery (Blast Films/BBC), comedy-documentary series The Greatest Shows on Earth (Channel 4/RDF) and multi-award winning feature-length drama documentary After the Wave (SBS/Discovery Europe/Screen Australia/Film Victoria).  

In 2016, Amanda wrote and directed the feature-length drama documentary Deep Water: The Real Story (Blackafella/SBS), which was nominated for 14 awards, including four AACTAs (Australia’s BAFTA), a NSW Premier Literary award and an Australian Directors Guild award. Her next documentary feature, Step Into Paradise, was also nominated for two AACTAs. She has also won numerous awards for her commercial work, including a Bronze Lion at Cannes and Kinsale Sharks, LIA Awards and New York Festival awards.  

In recent years, Amanda’s moved into directing fiction. This includes the comedies How Europe Stole My Mum (Guilty Party Pictures/Channel 4) and its follow-up, How We Forgot to Save the Planet (BBC Studios/Channel 4), which won a Royal Television Society Scotland Award for Comedy. She has also directed episodes of Maternal (World/ITV), Newark, Newark (Balloon Entertainment/UKTV) and The Windsors (Noho Films/Channel 4).  

Amanda is currently directing two episodes of new series The Gathering (World/Channel 4), and developing her debut feature film for Screen Australia and a television series in the UK. 

Agent: Jessica Sykes, Independent Talent