Amy Schatz


Amy Schatz is an American director and producer of documentaries and children's shows and series. In January 2020, Schatz won the Directors Guild of America Award for Children's Programs for "Song of Parkland".

Early life and education

Schatz is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal.

Career

Schatz's titles include the Classical Baby series and Goodnight Moon & Other Sleepytime Tales. She recently completed Song of Parkland, an HBO Documentary film featuring the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School drama students and their teacher, Melody Herzfeld, as well as In the Shadow of the Towers: Stuvyesant High on 9/11 and the children’s documentary, What Happened on September 11.  Schatz also created The Number on Great-Grandpa's Arm, a short film for young people on The Holocaust.
Her work has earned 8 Emmy Awards, 5 Directors Guild of America Awards, 3 Peabody Awards, Parents' Choice Award, the Gracie Award, 5 Animation Emmy Awards, and others.
Additional HBO shows include "Saving My Tomorrow," a 6-part series on the environment produced in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History, An Apology to Elephants, a film with Lily Tomlin, A Child's Garden of Poetry', A Family is a Family is a Family: a Rosie O’Donnell Celebration, Don't Divorce Me! Kids' Rules for Parents on Divorce, Twas the Night, Hard Times for an American Girl: The Great Depression, Through a Child's Eyes: September 11, 2001, The Music in Me, the 12-part Harold and the Purple Crayon, and others.
Schatz has also produced arts programs and documentaries for PBS. Her credits include the Bill Moyers series, Moyers on Addiction, A World of Ideas and What Can We Do About Violence? Also for PBS, she produced Fred Friendly's Before I Die and Your Money & Your Life and stories for the arts series City Arts and EGG. Her feature film credits include associate producer on George Balanchine's The Nutcracker and Meredith Monk's Books of Days''.
She is a member of the Directors Guild of America, Women in Film, and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

Personal life

Schatz lives in New York City with her husband and two children.