Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival
Amy A. Young, Double Exposure Festival Manager, is an award-winning filmmaker and photographer with a love for all things art, people and social change.
In 2024, Amy earned her Master of Arts in Film and Media Production from American University, where she served as a Director, Cinematographer and Editor on several short films. Her work garnered multiple festival nominations. Among these, her film What Love Knows, a personal exploration of family relationships and immigration, won Best Short Documentary at the 2024 A.U. Visions Film Festival.
After graduating, Amy joined Washington D.C.’s own Spark Media. There, she served as an Impact Producer for the documentary, Public Defender, a gripping film directed by Andrea Kalin and distributed by The New Yorker about a liberal public defender who is asked to represent January 6 rioters. Amy also serves as an Editor and Assistant Editor for The People’s Recorder, a podcast series that shines a light on critical American history through archived narratives like that of enslaved African Americans, Native Americans, and environmentalists. In 2025, The People’s Recorder was nominated for Best Indie Podcast at the Ambies.
