Quest Apartment Hotels
To drive a more emotional and human-centered connection to the Quest brand, we created this short TV commercial and a series of billboards that evoke the feeling of being home. It was delightful to work with the fierce and nimble team at Weld Stories who took this from pitch through to delivery in 8 weeks.
Agency: Weld Stories
Creative Direction, Writing, Directing: Amelia Tovey
Producer: Justine Moyle
DP: Katie Milwright
Editor: Pete Ward
The story of one family looking for marriage equality in Alabama.
A shorter version of this video aired on local television and was written about in the New York Times.
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
DP: Zoe White
Editor: Jared Houseman
Client: Freedom To Marry
Agency: Blue State Digital
The next chapter in the Obama story will take place where it all began - in the South Side of Chicago. With a foundation and a library on the South Side, the Obamas hope to “effect change locally… and to give something back after this incredible journey.”
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
DP: Zoe White
Editor: Jared Houseman
Client: The Obama Foundation
Agency: Blue State Digital
Client: National Education Association
NEA defines what public school educators need in a 2020 candidate.
April wants a candidate who will stand up for kids with disabilities.
Co-Producers/Directors: Amelia Tovey & Kashi Somers
DP: Dianna Eliazov
Editor Jared Houseman
Client: National Education Association
NEA defines what public school educators need in a 2020 candidate. Robin wants to see a commitment to end the school to prison pipeline.
Writer/Director/Producer: Amelia Tovey
DP: Dianna Eliazov
Editor Jared Houseman
Client: National Education Association
NEA defines what public school educators need in a 2020 candidate. Danielle needs a candidate who will fully fund community schools like hers in West Virginia.
Writer/Director/Producer: Amelia Tovey
DP: Eric Foster
Editor: Jared Houseman
NEA defines what public school educators need in a 2020 candidate. Rudy needs a candidate who will fully protect immigrant students and their families
Writer/Director/Producer: Amelia Tovey
Client: National Education Association
Production Company: Make It Here
Client: National Education Association
NEA defines what public school educators need in a 2020 candidate.
John needs a candidate who will increase teacher salaries so that they can live with dignity.
Writer/Director/Producer: Amelia Tovey
DP: Eric Foster
Editor: Jared Houseman
Client: National Education Association
Client: The Obama Foundation
Personal stories of transformation, hope and change during the Obama years. All stories are archived in the Library of Congress and were shared by the Obama Foundation following the President leaving office in 2017.
Producer: Amelia Tovey
Agency: Blue State Digital, in partnership with StoryCorps
Agency & Studio: Nationswell
Creative Producer, Writer: Amelia Tovey
Producer: Kashi Somers
The Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) wanted to mobilize everyday Americans — specifically, those who don’t have ties to the military — to care about the issues that affect veterans and demand support from their lawmakers and politicians.
This video won a Silver Webby Anthem Award in the Humanitarian Action category.
The story of life in a New York NICU, told in 6 parts.
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
Photographer: David Sosnow
Editor: Jared Houseman
Client: Coalition To Protect America's Health Care
Agency: Blue State Digital
Client: National Education Association
We created this fun little video to bring awareness to the importance of counting everyone in the 2020 census.
Director/Producer: Amelia Tovey
Creative/Animator: Meghan Udell
Client: Ford
From 2014 - 2016 I worked with the Ford Social account creating content around the annual North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) and in response to current events (or, erhm, current accusations from a certain presidential candidate)
Agency: Blue State Digital
Producer: Amelia Tovey
Animator: Simon Greiner
Students who are impacted by adversity need passionate and highly skilled teachers. And those teachers need Turnaround For Children.
Turnaround for Children translates neuroscientific research into tools and strategies for working with kids to accelerate healthy development and academic achievement.
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
DP: Zoe White
Editor: Jared Houseman
Client: Turnaround for Children
Agency: Blue State Digital
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University has built the first national database tracking the eviction epidemic in America. Following the success of his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, author and teacher Matthew Desmond now heads up The Eviction Lab - collecting data and addressing fundamental questions about residential instability and growing inequality in America.
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
Editor: Scott Ham
Client: The Eviction Lab
Production Company: Unfurl Productions
A cinematic one-take music video shot on the streets of Brooklyn and Sydney.
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
DP: Zoe White
Sydney Unit Director: Bo Tobias Anderson
Sydney Unit Cinematographer: Christopher Miles
Art Direction: Kashi Mai Somers
Shoot The Player was a personal project I shared with Jonathan Wald from 2007 - 2012. Together we filmed and edited over 100 live music performances on the streets of (mostly) Sydney. Inspired by Vincent Moon's Take Away Shows, we sought to capture a city, a sound, and a moment in time. Best memories are filming Beach House covering TLC, The Tallest Man On Earth serenading seagulls, and First Aid Kit performing their magic in Washington Square Park.
We also filmed St Vincent, Reggie Watts, Andrew Bird, Soko, Fences, Jack Ladder, Luluc and many more.
All videos shot, recorded and edited by myself and Jonathan Wald.
Long before I directed Katy Steele in her forthcoming single "Fire Me Up" I was a fan, swooning in the pit while she sang her lungs out. This video, out soon, was a treat to direct and edit and was truly a collaboration among good friends.
Producer/Director/Editor: Amelia Tovey
DP: Zoe White
Stylist: Kashi Somers
The story of what it means to be queer in America today. The collaboration between myself and photographer Molly Landreth took us on a journey from the forests of the Ozarks, to the drag king balls of East St. Louis, to the gay affirming churches of Galveston, Texas to the quiet cul-de-sacs of Jackson, Mississippi. The award winning project has exhibited internationally.
All photographs are by Molly Landreth.
A story of survival in Joplin, MO and Moore, OK.
Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
DP: David Sosnow
Editor: Jared Houseman
Client: Coalition to Protect America's Health Care
Agency: Blue State Digital
Winner: Silver Pollie Award
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is helping launch a new kind of public-private housing partnership that will build one of the country’s largest investment funds to address the Bay Area’s affordable housing crisis.
Field Producer/Director: Amelia Tovey
DP: Eric Foster
Client: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Agency: Nationswell
Behind the scenes shooting the album cover for Heartthrob.
Just me and a 60D racing around the Brooklyn studio.
Director/Shooter/Editor/Everything: Amelia Tovey
Client: Tegan and Sara
A music video I made in my bedroom with friends, a Canon 60D, a hand full of toys, a smoke machine and a bowl of milk. Good times!
A little bit of fun for Colgate, celebrating halloween with a DIY 'how to be a tooth' costume video.
Producer/Director/Editor/Shooter: Amelia Tovey
Client: Colgate
Agency: Blue State Digital
A smash hit on Facebook with over a million views and hundreds of shares on day 1.
