Amanda Mustard Filmmaker/Photojournalist

Amanda Mustard is a Brooklyn-based queer filmmaker and photojournalist raised on a Christmas tree farm in rural Pennsylvania. She began her career as a photojournalist during the Arab Spring In Egypt, and spent a decade working regularly for clients like the New York Times and National Geographic first in the Middle East, and then in Thailand covering southeast Asia. Her experiences as a journalist instilled a strong commitment to ethics in her work and a drive to uphold the dignity of both her subjects and colleagues. Amanda has worked with multiple press freedom groups to advocate for freelance sustainability and mental health awareness. She recently directed her first feature doc called Great Photo, Lovely Life about generational trauma in her family, which is available on HBO Max.