About Me

Amber Love is a Chicago-based filmmaker, festival programmer, and documentary editor.

Her first short film, “Woldumar,” is an experimental look at 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,” is a look at Afrofuturism as used in community organizing contexts and premiered in 2020 at the Milwaukee Film Festival. It has also screened across the US at festivals and community screenings. 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 funded by the Firelight Homegrown: Future Visions program and is distributed by PBS. Amber’s upcoming work includes her first feature non-fiction film called One Another, which was selected for Kartemquin Film’s 2022 Diverse Voices in Docs program and is supported by the Center for Independent Documentary. Her second feature non-fiction film is currently in development through the HBO/The Gotham Documentary Development Initiative.

Amber also works 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 television on projects like the ITVS supported film REPRESENT, the Kartemquin supported UNAPOLOGETIC, and on multiple series for PBS.

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