Amy Jenkins – In Person – 2026

Monday, April 13, 7:00 PM

Amy Jenkins is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work focuses on familial relationships and gender identity. She was recently awarded the Ford Foundation JustFilms Grant, a Santa Fe Art Institute Residency, the Sundance Documentary Film Grant, the Robert Flaherty Fellowship, the Harvard Film Study Center-LEF Fellowship, the Ewing Award for Interdisciplinary Art, and the New Hampshire Film Festival Filmmaker of the Year. Her films have also been supported by Points North Institute, Perspective Fund, Center for Independent Documentary, and Gotham. Her first documentary feature, Instructions on Parting, premiered at MoMA Doc Fortnight and won Best Feature Documentary at the Athens International Film and Video Festival, OH. Her work has been reviewed in many publications, including The New York Times, ARTnews, Bomb, Artcritical, Performing Arts Journal, and The Village Voice.

Adam’s Apple
Director: Amy Jenkins, Documentary, 99 min

A transgender teen and his mother chronicle their lives, artistically weaving a rare and intimate portrait of a family in transition. Two decades of footage trace a boy’s path to manhood and his parents’ vulnerability as they reckon with change.