Amanda Rose Wilder / As an artist I began as a poet, and then found filmmaking, and continue to bounce back and forth between these two mediums. I also love to work with my hands, and am building out a camper van to travel the Americas. But don't worry, I clean up pretty well. The second picture is my daughter and I before I headed off to a wedding. She decided she wanted to put on makeup too, lipstick courtesy of a blue ring pop.

The first picture was taken at a film festival in Spain. I was there to screen a feature observational documentary I made, Approaching the Elephant. This film went to festivals around the world, played at the Museum of Modern Art, won multiple awards and was written about in The New Yorker. I shot and recorded sound for the entire film on my own, as a one-woman band, as I do for almost all weddings.

I consider wedding days exciting opportunities to step into communities and make something beautiful that reflects exactly who people are and reflects their experience. I have always been drawn to filming real emotions, and wedding days are full of them. Intimate weddings suit me a bit more than big weddings, but really I like any form, anywhere, as long as we share a desire to capture not fakery or anything staged but the gorgeous realness of your love and life.

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Amanda Rose Wilder / As an artist I began as a poet, and then found filmmaking, and continue to bounce back and forth between these two mediums. I also love to work with my hands, and am building out a camper van to travel the Americans. But don't worry, I clean up pretty well. The first picture is my daughter and I before I headed off to a wedding. She decided she wanted to put on makeup too, lipstick courtesy of a blue ring pop.

The second picture was taken at a film festival in Spain. I was there to screen a feature observational documentary I made, Approaching the Elephant. This film went to festivals around the world, played at the Museum of Modern Art, won multiple awards and was written about in The New Yorker. I shot and recorded sound for the entire film on my own, as a one-woman band, as I do for almost all weddings.

I consider wedding days exciting opportunities to step into communities and make something beautiful that reflects exactly who people are and reflects their experience. I have always been drawn to filming real emotions, and wedding days are full of them. Intimate weddings suit me a bit more than big weddings, but really I like any form, anywhere, as long as we share a desire to capture not fakery or anything staged but the gorgeous realness of your love and life.