Amanda Pope, B.A.

Associate Professor

213.740.1197
apope@cinema.usc.edu
LUC 404F

Amanda has an extensive 20-year background in writing, producing, directing and editing documentary, dramatic, and advocacy programs. She teaches graduate documentary and fiction directing as well as courses in developing documentary concepts and the individual creative voice.

Her hour-long public television documentaries that include Jackson Pollock Portrait, a classic in its genre, Stages: Houseman Directs Lear; and Cities For People, were all broadcast nationally on PBS. Recently, her program series Faces of Change, documented grassroots reformers and emerging leaders in seven countries of the former Soviet Union. Currently she is partnering with two former students and recent alumni on two films – Art Rescuers of Nukus on an endangered world class collection of 50,000 artworks secreted away in the desert of Uzbekistan; and Pancho Barnes! a biography of a pioneer woman aviator with an Mae Westian life style.

Amanda received her B.A. from Wellesley College.