Joseph Amenta Explained

Joseph Amenta
Occupation:film director, screenwriter
Years Active:2000s-present
Notable Works:Flood, Soft

Joseph Amenta is a Canadian film director and screenwriter,[1] whose debut feature film Soft premiered at the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival.[2]

Prior to Soft, Amenta directed a number of short films, the most noted of which, Flood, premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival and included Tynomi Banks in its cast.[3]

Amenta is non-binary and uses gender-neutral pronouns.[4]

Filmography

Notes and References

  1. Peter Knegt, "Joseph Amenta imagines a world where queer kids are free in their new film Soft". Here & Queer (CBC Arts), August 23, 2023.
  2. Jeremy Kay, "Daniel Radcliffe as "Weird Al" Yankovic leads TIFF Midnight Madness; Discovery, Wavelength sections also unveiled" . Screen Daily, August 4, 2022.
  3. Web site: October 30, 2019 . Exclusive Interview: Flood Filmmaker Joseph Amenta . October 1, 2021 . The Queer Review . en-US . October 1, 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20211001063438/https://thequeerreview.com/2019/10/30/exclusive-interview-flood-filmmaker-joseph-amenta/ . live .
  4. Nicole Thompson, "From 'My Policeman' to 'Soft,' TIFF films offer nuanced exploration of queer lives". St. Albert Gazette, September 3, 2022.

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