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Joseph Amenta

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Joseph Amenta
Occupation(s)film director, screenwriter
Years active2000s-present
Notable workFlood, 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

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  • Growing Up Cooter - 2013
  • Wild Youth - 2015
  • Cherry Cola - 2018
  • Haus - 2018
  • Flood - 2019
  • Soft - 2022

References

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  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" Archived 2022-08-05 at the Wayback Machine. Screen Daily, August 4, 2022.
  3. ^ "Exclusive Interview: Flood Filmmaker Joseph Amenta". The Queer Review. October 30, 2019. Archived from the original on October 1, 2021. Retrieved October 1, 2021.
  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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