Amy Robinson

Directors, producers and actors such as Amy Robinson, Producer of Game 6, After Hours, For the Love of the Game, Phil Morrison, Director of Junebug, and Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan, from Yo La Tengo, Composers of the score from Junebug and Game 6, have shared their views and talent with film festival attendees.

It turned out to be Amy Robinson, producer of GAME 6 and longtime collaborator with Griffin Dunne (they also worked on ONCE AROUND, WHITE PALACE, RUNNING ON EMPTY, AFTER HOURS and CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER together).
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This quirky film is reminiscent one of production team Griffin Dunne and Amy Robinson's earlier collaborations, AFTER HOURS.

Amy Robinson Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film - Amy Robinson Spotlight

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A highlight for me at this year's Provincetown International Film Festival was meeting producer Amy Robinson, who took part in the fest for the first time in support of her latest film, GAME 6. At a panel discussion later in the weekend, Amy generously mentioned Chlotrudis, interrupting her panel time to invite me to tell those in attendance more about our group. The response was great, and the rest of the weekend I was chatted up by several folks interested to learn more. Turnabout is fair play - in early August I had the opportunity to have a phone conversation with Amy, in which we talked more about her upcoming film, her experiences as a film producer, and her thoughts on all manners of things film-related

A Producer's Life:

Amy Robinson has been producing films for over twenty-five years, with an impressive roster of films that includes AFTER HOURS, RUNNING ON EMPTY, FOR LOVE OF THE GAME, and FROM HELL- films which, although ostensibly made within the 'Hollywood system', all beat with a passionate heart more associated with what is thought of as 'independent'(and sometimes, with independent-sized budgets). She got her start in 1978 when she and another actor friend, Griffin Dunne, decided to drum up on their own the good projects they weren't seeing. Out of that turning point came CHILLY SCENES OF WINTER, and the realization that her talents and strengths were ideally suited to production. Plus, "I get to see it all, from beginning to end, rather than just the blip of it I did as an actor."

I mentioned to her that, looking back at her filmography, it seems that she enjoys working with new directors, or established directors trying their hand in a new genre. Was this deliberate on her part?
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Having seen and enjoyed this film at Provincetown, I took the opportunity to talk more with Amy about the whys and wherefores behind it, as well as plans for the film's future. She was happy to mention that the film was picked up for distribution, and that she hopes to have a simultaneous premiere in both New York and Boston sometime in early spring 2006. I agreed with her sentiment that it was most likely a good thing for the film that the Red Sox won last year - speaking for myself, I think that if that hadn't been the case, some of the film's later scenes would have been just unbearable.
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Amy thinks "With all of this, the real question should be, is this the end of theatregoing?"

Amy doesn't think that it is - she believes that there's something primal about seeing a film with other people, where "you can't just pause it and get something from the refrigerator", an experience in which "you have to surrender, almost, to what's happening. She sees the potential for a silver lining, in that theatres might focus on this other (older) demographic and ways to draw them out. She mentioned as examples Robert Redford's attempts to broaden his Sundance vision into a theatre chain, and also talked about some bigger multiplex chains designating one theatre as the 'indie screen'.

Amy wondered aloud about how things might shake out, feeling at times that her generation of filmmakers was the last to start out as fans of film when movie news was not followed so closely by a celebrity-fueled media such as Entertainment Weekly, Extra, or E!Online. Nowadays, when people can see the box office results on TV, scrolling at the bottom of CNN, she commented about how much more difficult it is for film audiences to have a pure film experience - watching a movie 'fresh', in a sense. Yet she still believes that there is a significant portion of the audience out there who do still want to experience that, but don't know where or how to get it.
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Amy commented, though, that it's hard to say what the landscape will look like in a few year's time, with the industry (both mainstream and independent) in flux about how best to proceed in the areas of marketing and distribution. Whatever happens, her focus as always is on discovering, developing and producing great stories, and then finding the audiences who want to see them - one film at a time. I for one am going to keep an eye on whatever comes up next from Amy Robinson.

My thanks to Amy for taking time to speak with me. Check the Chlotrudis website in the coming months for more information about the Boston premiere of GAME 6.

In 2005 directors, producers and actors such as Amy Robinson, Producer of Game 6, After Hours, For the Love of the Game, Phil Morrison, Director of Junebug, and Georgia Hubley and Ira Kaplan, from Yo La Tengo, Composers of the score from Junebug and Game 6, shared their views and talent with film festival attendees.

Amy Robinson

Member Amy Robinson speaks before the Arts Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, on a panel on censorship.

Other signatories to the position letter include: Adam Arkin; Lauren Bacall; Richard Belzer; HBO Chairman & CEO Jeff Bewkes Chevy Chase; Wes Craven; Alan Cumming; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Executive Director, Lucy Dalglish; Bo Derek; Olympia Dukakis; Hector Elizondo; Harvey Fierstein; producer Tom Fontana (Oz, Homicide); Michael P. Frankfurt, Partner, Frankfurt, Garbus, Kurnit, Klein and Selz; Artemis Records CEO Danny Goldberg; Tony Goldwyn; Spalding Gray; producer Marshall Herskovitz (Traffic, thirtysomething); Chris Lawford; Interactive Digital Software Association President Doug Lowenstein; Ron Reagan; producer Amy Robinson (Autumn in New York); Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) President Hilary Rosen; Court TV Chairman & CEO Henry Schleiff Andres Serrano; Ben Stiller; and Kathleen Turner.

Members Nessa Picker, Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, and Kathie Berlin raise $55,000 to fund the Hudson Riverkeeper documentary, The Last Riverman.

I hadn't eaten dinner, so I took my loser number to the pizza stand, where I spotted Amy Robinson, another Game 6 producer.I saw that she had envelopes with tickets and managed to beg one off her.