This page includes my cinematography reels (both fiction and documentary) as well as clips from other work I created or co-created. Thank you for watching!-Amy Olk
In 2001, Romania began a major overhaul of its child welfare system in order to meet requirements to join the European Union. Part of this reform was the closure of traditional orphanages and the placement of abandoned children in family settings. This is a short profile of Zoro, one of the subjects of my documentary "The King Who Wanted a Boy." In 2003, after growing up in an orphanage in Transylvania where he spoke only Romanian, social workers located the biological family that abandoned hi...
Excerpts from the 2007 season premiere of “Deserving Design,” a new home makeover show on HGTV. I was the second camera operator for this and other episodes.
For Bob Kidder, a die-hard Red Sox fan with severe dyslexia, the Red Sox Fantasy Camp in Fort Myers, Florida offers him a chance to recapture his lost dreams and to forge a closer relationship with his daughters. I shot and edited these short excerpts, and conducted the included interviews.
This is a short excerpt from my 2001 documentary about a group of former mermaids at Weeki Wachee Springs, a historic Florida roadside attraction. The women, who range in age from 50 to 70, return to perform at the attraction for fun, but wind up fighting to save the park from closure.
This is a short compilation of scenes from narrative films shot on super-16mm. I was the director of photoraphy and camera operator.