Amy Gottung is a producer, director, consultant, researcher, and writer based in Canada. Bridging sectors and disciplines, her practice evades an easy identity, and encompasses a diverse, international roster of projects, clients, and collaborators.

As a creative producer, Amy has led the realization of experimental media, non-fiction television and video, festivals, operas, hackathons, and other trans-disciplinary forms. She has worked in documentary production (PBS, Florentine Films), presented work at Luminato, and spearheaded a number of original projects like A More Beautiful Journey, an augmented reality app that animated hundreds of kilometres of Toronto public transit line with site-specific, spatialized music and sound from over 30 artists.

As a consultant and fundraiser, Amy has worked with a wide range of organizations in creative, social purpose, and cross-sector contexts to build strategy and support. Her clients span sectors including food security (Daily Bread, North York Harvest, The Stop Community Food Centre), cultural infrastructure (221A), public space (The Laneway Project), environmental advocacy (GreenPAC), and Indigenous land planning (Shared Path), among others. She recently served as the lead local consultant to VibeLab, a global leader in night culture, and the City of Toronto on the development of the City’s Night Economy Strategy, and she currently supports funding and business development for the experimental music label Halocline Trance.

From 2016-2020 Amy was Executive Director of Toronto’s singular “anarchic, circus-like” music and art series, Long Winter (Rolling Stone), for which she co-programmed and presented over 1,000 artists in 25+ festival events. In three seasons she initiated and co-developed collective-based frameworks, a first arms-length Board of Directors, and strategic planning processes. She introduced international co-productions with the creation of two festivals focused on underground scenes in Toronto and Paris (Fr), more than tripled revenue and activity, and ushered the organization into annual operating funding streams.

Amy is the founder of several cross-sector interventions and international exchanges in support of experimental culture, including a co-located transmedia festival and research conference, co-presented by Long Winter (Toronto) and La Station Gare des Mines (Paris) in partnership with Toronto Metropolitan University and the Université de Rouen in 2021, and a capacity-building program for DIY spaces, realized in partnership with Trans Europe Halles and leaders from government, real estate, and culture. She is currently one of five core partners delivering Alter-Places: an international research project focused on the sustainability of alternative cultural spaces, based out of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and funded by the European Union.

Amy holds a SSHRC-funded M.A. from the University of Toronto and a B. Mus from McGill University. She has lived and worked in Toronto, New York, Montréal, Sagueney (QC), Massachussetts, and Vancouver. She speaks English and (pretty good) French.

Always looking for the others, Amy collaborates with partners around the world.