Wallstreet Journal, Jill Scott, Anthony Minghella, Amy Moore, Alexander McCall-Smith
Ms. Moore is a cultural activist who produces entertainment projects, unearthed from across the globe, with the aim of humanizing different cultures through entertainment, and reinvesting back into local communities.
In the last three decades, Moore has produced or been involved in the production of dozens of theatrical productions, television programs, and feature films. She is well-known for producing the global hit series, The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. She optioned the series of novels before their US publication and she created the award-winning film alongside director, Anthony Minghella. Through Moore’s insistence and work with the Republic of Botswana, the production was shot on location in Botswana.
We [The local people of Botswana] call Amy, “Mma Pula,” which means “mother rain.” She is our rain maker. Have you seen what happens in the desert when it rains, and all of the flowers come out? It changes everything. She changes everything.
– Proctor, Local Casting Botswana (read interview)
Moore was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the first Black Empowerment film production company, a division of the media conglomerate, New Africa Investments Ltd, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Moore sits on a number of Boards, including The Memory Box Foundation. She is a frequent traveler around Africa, and currently resides in Detroit, Michigan, which she calls “the wild wild West of Creativity.”
Selected Press and Interviews: Amy J. Moore
“An Independent Women of Independent Films,” Valley Film Festival Website, 2011
Cape Times, November 20, 2007
News24.com, July 5, 2007
“No Sex, Different City,” Wall Street Journal, March 20, 2009
New York Times, September 23, 2007 (No. 1 Ladies)
Mail & Guardian, September 6, 2007
Christian Science Monitor, August 1, 2007
The Economist, July 26, 2007
New York Times, July 3, 2011 (Detroit)