About

Amber Love was raised in the Midwest, a daughter in a line of headstrong single mothers.

Her first short film, “Woldumar,” is an experimental time capsule of the passing of her father and premiered at the 2019 Camden International Film Festival. In 2019, she was also selected as a NeXt Doc Fellow for her work as an emerging documentary director.

Her next short film, “A Galaxy Sits in the Cracks,” explores Afrofuturism in community organizing and premiered in 2020 at the Milwaukee Film Festival. It was followed by her third short film, “Strikers,” which is supported by IF/Then and is available to screen on Short of the Week. Her most recent short film, “Lifetimes,” was part of the Firelight Homegrown: Future Visions program and is distributed by PBS Digital.

Amber’s debut feature film, One Another, premiered at SXSW 2026. It was part of Kartemquin Film’s 2022 Diverse Voices in Docs program and is supported by the Center for Independent Documentary. Her second feature film, Untitled Idlewild Project, is currently in production and was developed through the HBO/The Gotham Documentary Development Initiative.

Since 2016, Amber has also been a film festival programmer, and she has programmed for the New Orleans Film Festival (NOFF), SFFILM Festival, True/False, and the Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF).

Amber began her work in film production as a documentary editor, and in 2020 she was selected as an inaugural Sundance Art of Editing Fellow. As an editor, she has worked on both feature-length films and non-fiction series on projects like the ITVS supported film Represent, the Kartemquin supported Unapologetic, and on multiple series for PBS.