The Filmmaker
Immy Humes with Norman Mailer
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From filmmaker Immy Humes:
Her three favorite films:
La Dolce Vita
Spinal Tap
Cane Toads
Her advice for aspiring filmmakers:
Don’t. Unless you just can’t help yourself!
Her most inspirational food for making independent film:
Actually, I find all foods inspirational for making films! It’s the single most important thing—to have good dinners with people you love and get inspired.
Filmmaker Bio
Immy Humes
Producer/Director
Immy Humes’s films and videos deal with a variety of subjects and formats, and all have a distinctive, recognizable voice. They treat social and political themes relating to justice and equality, but often take an indirect approach or partly humorous tone. A Little Vicious, about a dog “with ties to the pit bull family,” was nominated for an Oscar in 1992. The New York Post called it a “superb … splendid little comedy.” Lizzie Borden Hash & Rehash (1997) is about America’s favorite “self-made orphan.” Newsday found it “swift, sharp, incisive and curiously, unexpectedly funny.” Immy’s other films include portraits of Wade Davis, ethnobotanist and indigenous culture activist; Dorothy Lewis, a psychiatrist and expert on violence; Joseph Paul Franklin, a racist serial killer on death row; and segments for Michael Moore’s TV Nation and for DatelineNBC.
Immy’s work has received many honors, including screenings at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and Film Forum and at festivals from Arkansas to Amsterdam. She has won grants and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony; the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts; the Jerome, Robeson, Soros Fund (now the Sundance Fund); Independent Television Service (ITVS); the National Endowment for the Humanities; and other funders. A major educational Web site about design that she created for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with her company, The Doc Tank, won the 2003 Webby Award for Best Youth Site. Immy graduated from Harvard with honors in social studies and has taught documentary filmmaking at Brooklyn Polytechnic and City College.
the National Endowment for the Arts