[I Love You Very Much]

Amber Rose McNeill is an Australian Film Director, Intimacy Coordinator, and Programmer based in Wisconsin. Her work centers around challenging social attitudes towards normative sexuality and traditional gender roles. Critiquing the role of violence in film and media is also a reoccurring focus. Amber Rose’s scope of practice incorporates 16mm, 8mm, video, digital, polaroid, and sampled media within the genres of feminist horror, queer cinema, experimental documentary, and social commentary.

Amber Rose’s films have screened both nationally and internationally at Portland Film Festival, Sydney Underground Film Festival, Oregon Documentary Film Festival, Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, Liverpool Underground Film Festival, Night of Horrors Festival, Joburg Underground Film Festival, and Milwaukee Underground Film Festival.

Amber Rose graduated with honors in the spring of 2023 with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres, as well as a Minor in Jewish Studies, from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is currently in the process of founding a film festival in Milwaukee that exclusively highlights the work of underrepresented voice in film and video. Her focus with this festival is to create space for filmmakers who are queer, trans, non-binary, Black, Indigenous, Latinx, AAPI, POC, Jewish, femme, fat, disabled and/or any intersection of historically marginalized communities.