Amanda Bluglass

Amanda Bluglass is a British director whose films and commercial work have been featured on the BBC, Channel 4, Huffington Post and The Atlantic. She’s worked with clients as varied as the London Olympics, NASA, Samsung, and Etsy, and is also an associate lecturer in Media Arts at Plymouth University, UK. Her first career, spanning 12 years in BBC radio and TV news, saw her working with national correspondents for the Six, One, and Ten o’clock News. Since embarking on freelance directing in 2006, she's won numerous festival selections and awards for her documentary portraits and experimental films. Her short Chasing the Sublime (Mountainfilm 2019) profiles cold-water swimmers and asks the question: Why do we put ourselves in the path of discomfort and risk?