Amy Reid is a filmmaker whose work examines the intersections between gender, national identity, and labor. By exploring observational approaches and expanding upon formal cinematic notions of time, structure, and narrative, Reid’s work questions how labor is constructed in the filmic form through feature length films, video installations, and texts. These multi-year projects, often working closely with a group—long haul female truckers, quilters, e-commerce sellers—premise upon collaboration, performance, and experimentation. Reid received her BFA from The Cooper Union in 2009 and her MFA in 2017 from the University of California, San Diego. Reid is an alumnus of The Whitney Independent Study Program. Currently she is a PhD Candidate in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz finishing her dissertation Feminist Relationality in the Americas: Women's Practices in Filmmaking & Quilting. Reid’s dissertation considers the aesthetic and political practices of feminist filmmakers from the 1970s in relation to her own filmmaking and work as a film programmer. Part of her dissertation is a feature-length 16mm and video experimental film looking at women, quilting, and 19th and 20th century US history entitled Grandmother’s Garden.