Amber Sealey is an award-winning filmmaker who most recently directed the Peabody Award Winning Disney+ film OUT OF MY MIND, for which she won the 2025 DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Children’s Programs; as well as a Gracie Award for Director - Made for TV Movie. Based on the bestselling book of the same name by Sharon Draper, the film stars Rosemarie DeWitt, Luke Kirby, Judith Light, Jennifer Aniston, and newcomer Phoebe-Rae Taylor. The film premiered at Sundance 2024, won a TV Academy Honor, and was nominated for two Critic’s Choice Awards — Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie (Phoebe-Rae Taylor) and Best Movie Made for Television. It was also nominated for a WGA Award, won Best Narrative Film at Woodstock Film Festival, won Best Family Film at the Mill Valley Film Festival, won a Christopher Award, and was honored by the Rudderman Foundation for authentic portrayal of disabled communities, and holds a 100% Fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Her feature NO MAN OF GOD (SpectreVision/Company X/XYZ Films/RLJ Entertainment), starring Elijah Wood and Luke Kirby, was theatrically released in 2021 to rave reviews.
She has been supported by Sundance, Film Independent, Women In Film, is a fellow of the AFI Directing Workshop for Women, and has written scripts for Duplass Brothers/Donut Productions. She was selected for Ryan Murphy’s Half Initiative, the NBCUniversal Directors Initiative, the WeForShe DirectHer program, Film Independent’s Directing Lab, and their Fast Track program.
Her short film, HOW DOES IT START, world premiered at Sundance and (among other awards) won Best Narrative Short at Sarasota FF. Her feature NO LIGHT & NO LAND ANYWHERE was theatrically released by Factory 25 and won a Special Jury Award at the LA Film Festival. Her second feature, HOW TO CHEAT, won Best Performance at LAFF, and won both Best Narrative and Best Acting at BendFilm. Her first film, A PLUS D, was released by IndiePix.
Amber has a BA in Theatre Arts and Modern Dance from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MA from The Central School of Speech and Drama in London. She studied Shakespeare at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She was born in England and lives in Los Angeles with her family.