Amy Geist

Amy Geist

History

Amy Geist is a producer, director, writer, and founder of Beloved Root. Hailing from Ohio, she made a five-year pit-stop in Chicago before landing in Los Angeles. She collaborates with emerging filmmakers and nurtures relationships with vendors, clients, and crew, hammering out budgets, scripts, decks, and mood boards. She has worked in almost every department, always striving to be a well-rounded ally. She started in Los Angeles as a freelance Producer and Production Manager at The Woo Agency, working with such clients as Lenovo (*Telly Award Winning), Disney, Sebastian, Motorola, Marvel, Milani, Bosch, Braun, and Delonghi. Her feature film and television work include Blade Runner 2049 (Alcon Entertainment *Academy Award Winning), Little (Universal), The Exorcist (Fox), Alex Inc (ABC), and most recently, Trees of Peace (Abstract Entertainment). In 2018, she wrote and produced the short film "The Way You Saw Me," which screened at twelve film festivals and won Runner-Up for Best Narrative Short at Denver Underground Film Festival and Bronze Film Award for Narrative Dramatic Short at WorldFest Houston.

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Amy Geist

Movies

Help Me Understand
Help Me Understand
Producer
Six women come to a consensus.
#FBF
#FBF
Unit Production Manager
Teenage Annie inadvertently takes her mother's laptop instead of her own to visit her father in New Jersey. She quickly realizes that the laptop allows her to pretend to be her mother. She uses this to try to restore her parents' marriage ....
Between the Darkness
Between the Darkness
Line Producer
Thirteen-year-old Sprout Grady grows convinced that a monster is haunting the nearby woods. Embarking on a mission to vanquish it, she uncovers horrifying secrets that rock the core of everything she thought she knew.
Blade Runner 2049
Blade Runner 2049
Post Production Assistant
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Mercury in Retrograde
Mercury in Retrograde
Production Design
Three couples from Chicago vacation for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan. Over the course of three days in this comedy/drama, hidden tensions and secrets slowly come to the surface.