Amy Flannery

Amy's life in television production began in 1991 when she joined Yellow Cat Productions in Washington, DC. and soon became Vice President of the company, working as a producer, writer, director, camera operator, and editor. She produced independent documentaries and worked with a wide variety of clients including: Discovery Channel, A&E, History Channel, E! Entertainment TV, Showtime, ABC News, Paramount Pictures, Smithsonian Institution, National Institutes of Health, Xerox, AT&T, Department of Labor, the IRS and many independent producers from around the world. She left Yellow Cat Productions in July 2003, to enjoy life as a freelancer and write screenplays. During this time she worked with a British production company as their American fixer and assistant producer on a pilot for a reality show called Cha Ching Moneymakers. Discovery Channel bought the series, and Amy stayed on as an associate producer for four more episodes. She continued freelancing as a producer, camera operator, sound recordist, and fixer for a variety of clients including Robert Greenwald, Yellow Cat Productions, Media Central, HGTV, TLC, BET, GVI, Tigervision and Redback Films of London as well as corporate and government entities. Her screenplay In the Mouth of the Lion won third prize in the Los Angeles based African Film Commission's storytelling competition. The screenplay was optioned but never produced. In 2007 Amy and her husband moved aboard a 38-foot sloop combining her two passions: sailing and filmmaking. She completed post production in 2014 on Red Dot on the Ocean, a documentary about Matt Rutherford, an Annapolis sailor who completed the first ever solo, non-stop voyage around the Americas. Prior to getting in the television business, she lived in Senegal, West Africa, for four years where she worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small village and then taught English as a second language at the American Cultural Center in Dakar. The lessons she learned about communal living from subsistence farmers in a Senegalese village have deeply influenced her approach to life.