Amelia Mulkey

This may be more of a manifesto…

I have always involved getting people together to experience the same story. I grew up on sets and backstage with two wonderful actor parents. As a child, I directed Venice-Beach-style remakes of all fairytales with the neighborhood kids, ran lines with my folks after homework, and got cut out of my first film at the ripe age of five.

I love performing. It feels like strings are attached to everyone's heart in the room, leading back to mine. I gently or sharply tug as the moment calls.

I love image-making. I can paint and draw, but my first job was in a photo lab. Playing with colors,

I feel best and most completely utilized as a director, maybe because it combines my two loves- with my third- creating a team. I love setting the table for the best collaborators to come together and make something impactful. I love honing a story until it is crystal clear. I am adding elements to surprise and delight. Creating moments that give you a name for that weird feeling you did not have a name for.

I have a degree in art history. Not filmmaking. I wanted to understand the history of how images have come to impact humans. I tried to understand the clothes before making a party dress. After school, I spent a few years working on different shows for FOX, ABC, and TNT as a producer's assistant, which taught me EVERYTHING about making that party dress.

I fell in love and moved to San Francisco, where I started directing my work, which grew into The Clock Factory. Along the way, I have directed several award-winning short films, music videos, and plays.

I live in Los Angeles and work out of my Topanga studio. I have some weird and wonderful theatre and film projects coming up this year of our Lord 2024, so feel free to subscribe and follow if you wish to be invited to them.