Amanda Duthie

Amanda Duthie
Born	Scotland
Occupation	Festival director
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1991 - present

Amanda Duthie is the Scottish-born Australian CEO and director of the Adelaide Film Festival. In addition, she curates and manages the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, sits on the Board of Adelaide Festival, Committee for Adelaide, and Festivals Adelaide, and on the Advisory Board, ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, University of Western Australia.

Duthie began her career at SBS in 1991. She worked as the "one inch tape girl" in the SBS Tape Library. It was a temp job, but she fell in love with TV production and started to work her way through the ranks, from production to producer level. She did a lot of unpaid work to gain as much experience as possible. Production budgets at SBS were always low and she learned to make do with what they had. The Movie Show with Margaret and David introduced her to a range of movies beyond Hollywood. Working on programs, such as Eat Carpet, introduced her to the world of experimental filmmaking and the first works of major film-makers.

She remained at SBS until 1999, when she moved to become associate producer of the PBS-BBC-ABC co-production Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore. She then joined the New South Wales Film and Television Office (later Screen NSW) as senior project manager.

In December 2003, Duthie joined ABC Television, where, as Head of Comedy, Arts and Entertainment, she commissioned TV series, documentaries and other television programming. Programs broadcast during her stewardship at the ABC include Spicks & Specks, The Gruen Transfer and Gruen Planet, Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey, Adam Hills in Gordon Street Tonight, and The Chaser’s The Hamster Wheel. Her arts programming slate included Artscape, At the Movies, First Tuesday Book Club, an ongoing series of ABC Live concerts, and The Bazura Project.

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