Amanda
Sonnenschein
I am a director, producer, writer, actor and artist based in Los Angeles and New York City.
Directing
Producing
Silent Panic
“a very promising premise [that] sounds like the plot of a classic ’50s film noir”
“This is the kind of film that Film Threat loves to get behind. It’s an ambitious, indie film with a lot of heart behind it. Schadt’s story is solid.”
“a terrifying premise that works hard at getting under your skin with layers of tension”
available on AMAZON PRIME and APPLE TV+
House of Demons
“It is that rarest of films, a great one that get better the more it’s pondered. ”
“an extremely talented cast of up and coming actors... Props to filmmaker Meaney who is able to pull off telling a story with multiple characters without letting one feel short changed or lost in the shuffle.”
“the type of weird, eerie story we don’t get to see enough of in cinema...you can’t really go wrong with this film.”
available on AMAZON PRIME, TUBI, ROKU, CRACKLE and more
Legends of Sleepy Hollow
PILOT
Drawing From Life
Picked up for the pilot episode of an Amazon Prime horror anthology series.
available on AMAZON PRIME
Where’s Carson
starring Eric Roberts, Frank Stallone and William McNamara
COMING SOON
Writing
feminist horror / folklore
feature script, 100 pages
cowriter Emmy-nominated Juefang Zhang
In collaboration with When Pigs Fly Studios
An ambitious filmmaker travels to the mystical Great Xing’an Range of Northeastern China, where a shamanic ritual to select the 'Mountain God's Wife' unfolds, only to discover she is marked as the next sacrifice.
Recently was selected for the Frontières Market at Fantasia Festival in Montreal.
Class Trip
coming of age comedy
feature script, 123 pages
Two quirky middle school girls determined to upgrade their social status before high school infiltrate the popular clique on an overnight field trip by promising a rendezvous with the dreamy local high school band, only to put everyone in peril with their desperate escapade.
Drawing From Life
period / supernatural horror
feature script, 100 pages
When Margaret, a painter in the year 1910, loses her husband, she will do anything to get him back.
The Contribution
social commentary horror
feature script, 96 pages
cowriter Patrick Meaney
Three ambitious cater waiters, chasing the Hollywood dream, take a job at a party in an isolated Hills mansion, but soon realize they have been targeted by the ruthless host, who wants their talents as part of her deadly scheme to overthrow large corporations by any means necessary.
Off the Grid
horror slasher comedy
feature script, 101 pages
cowriter Patrick Meaney
An older couple, both ex-marines, try to make the best of their retirement by vacationing at an AirBnB in the Hamptons, only to be terrorized by their dangerous, rager-throwing teenage hosts.
Left Behind
suspense thriller
feature script, 109 pages
cowriter Vikram Kale
A reclusive young painter struggles against the vengeful spirit of her stillborn twin who induces life-threatening nightmares in order to sabotage her aspirations and end her life.
Spontaneous Revolution
science fiction, one hour pilot
In the not-so-distant future, our country is run by two entities: the Government and the Network. The Synchronized Society is designed to control and repress human instincts. Those who do not comply have nodes implanted in the brains to prevent extreme emotions. Others avoid this fate by sequestering themselves in dark rooms and ingesting the constant stream of media propaganda.
Annette Sands, head of the Network, decides to break from the Government by cancelling the President’s media coverage. Emboldened by recent terrorist attacks, she then plucks a former protestor out of exile and bolsters him as a messiah figure to encourage an organized uprising.
As Annette’s plan works beyond her wildest dreams, she struggles to stay in control of a disgraced radical suddenly given the platform he always wanted…
Co-Written by Marilyn Oran and Eric Jay Sonnenschein, based on the novel by Eric Jay Sonnenschein
Vistas
period thriller, one hour pilot
In 1972, a motley group, inspired by the idealistic spirit of their time, join Volunteers In Service To America (VISTA). They are stationed in the Appalachians to help the impoverished coal mining locals, who are bitter about "privileged outsiders" telling them how to live. But resentment and suspicion run deep on both sides when a VISTA volunteer goes missing.
Blind Tiger
period drama, one hour pilot
A group of women of various ages, ethnicities and walks of life pave their way in the 1920s while working at a speakeasy in downtown Manhattan.
Just For Tonight
dark comedy
Three act play, 76 pages, no intermission
3 women, 4 men
When Bobby’s conservative parents visit him in West Hollywood, his roommate Kate tries to mitigate the conflict by inviting her hippie family, only to find out that her parents are not as accepting as she thought.
Drawn In
drama, experimental
Three act play, 85 pages, no intermission
3 women, 2 men
An exploration of the toxic relationship of two traumatized painters who become each other’s muses.
Acting
“I was thoroughly impressed…Amanda Sonnenschein and Christine Treuhold had perfect comedic chemistry as Sara Jane Moore and Lynette ‘Squeaky’ Fromme, and their partner scenes kept the audience in stitches.”
“You were so convincing as Juror 10,
I was scared to come up and talk to you after the show.”
From the World Premiere of
Palindrome Play
written and directed by
Coz Deicke
“Simply brilliant...Amanda Sonnenschein [as Amy] and Beanie Feldstein [as Sarah] were real standouts in the cast.”
In Action
