Amir George

Known for: Directing

Biography

Amir George (US) is an award winning filmmaker based in Chicago. George is a film programmer at True/False Film Fest and Chicago International Film Festival. George is the co-founder of the touring film series Black Radical Imagination. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image into an experience of non-linear perception. George’s films have screened at institutions and film festivals including Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Anthology Film Archives; Glasgow School of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Ann Arbor Film Festival; Trinidad and Tobago International Film Festival; BlackStar Film Festival and the Camden International Film Festival, among others.