Amy Grumbling

Teaches at DCTV

Amy Grumbling is the Workshops Manager at DCTV, where she oversees all the filmmaking workshops for adults. She co-produced the award-winning feature documentary Heaven + Earth + Joe Davis, about an eccentric artist who encodes poetry into DNA and sends messages into outer space, and was a freelance producer, shooter, and editor in NYC for over a decade. 

She spent a season as Associate Programmer at UnionDocs and has filmed StorySLAMS for The Moth. Amy has taught and facilitated filmmaking workshops for high school students and adults, in settings ranging from a non-profit organization in Maine to the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, and she was a volunteer for years at 826NYC (aka the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Store), helping kids write and shoot short films. She studied video production and forensic anthropology at Hampshire College. 

She is an ACA certified canoe trip leader at the North Brooklyn Boat Club and an apprentice beekeeper.