AMALA LANE: Is a Director and producer of documentaries and media for nonprofits, educational, cultural and advocacy communications through comprehensive, character driven story-telling across all media platforms. Amala, driven by her spiritual search, spent her early years in Taiwan and East and South Asia, helping to begin 2 pre-schools, with a social service organization focused on holistic education, followed by another few years in the Czech Republic. She gained her MFA in Film from Columbia University and was awarded for her achievement in Directing with the Milos Forman Fund, named after someone who she admired. She founded her Hummingbird Films, a boutique video production company to promote educational, cultural and non-profit causes, which demonstrates her commitment to: women’s issues, public health and the environment. She became an Adjunct Professor at Hofstra University, teaching film appreciation, then moved to Outreach National Coordinator for Incite Pictures, Cine Qua Non, setting up screenings and marketing strategies across the United States. Amala became the Producer of documentaries, educational/videos and promotionals at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for a little over 15 years and soon Adjunct Professor, leading her class in exploring the aesthetic and practical phase of filmmaking, from concept to editing. In 2018 she began as the Program Initiatives and Media Coordinator for the East Asia Program at Cornell University. and later given the responsibility of Media Production for OPVIA: Office of the Vice President for Int’l Affairs, which provides leadership and advocacy for int’l programs and activities, and coordinates the resources to sustain their growth. Check out her clients and the important work she’s doing which defines who she is, via: Cornell's East Asia Program eap.einaudi.cornell.edu A recent video about the Human Rights Compendium done for Global Cornell: https://youtu.be/9O4_Mrc_DOI Global Cornell (Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs of OVPIA) https://global.cornell.edu/ ACRIA https://www.acria.org/ IOFA http://iofa.org/ UNIFEM https://www.unwomen.org/en Friends of Fort Tryon Park https://www.forttryonparktrust.org/ Her website: amalalane.com
