Amy Sewell

What’s your point, honey? was the second documentary made by Sewell, with filmmaker Susan Toffler. The film covers seven women who were selected by CosmoGirl magazine as possible presidential contenders for the 2024 US Presidential Election.

Sewell’s short stories and screenplays include:

In NYC, Sewell spent 15 years as a marketing executive in the publishing industry before leaving to spend more time at home with her twin daughters. Sewell later began working as a writer, reporting local stories for her neighborhood newspaper, the Tribeca Trib, in lower Manhattan. In July 2003, following the publication of a feature story in the Tribeca Trib about New York City public school children studying ballroom dance, Sewell worked with film producer Marilyn Agrelo to turn her story into a documentary Mad Hot Ballroom.

After working in marketing for several years, Sewell enrolled in Schiller International University, located in Paris, France, where she studied business administration, receiving a Masters of Business Administration (MBA). Sewell moved to New York in 1989.

Amy Sewell (born 1963) is an American author and filmmaker, best known for Mad Hot Ballroom (Paramount, 2005), in which she debuted as a film writer and producer.

Sewell was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1963, and grew up in suburban Chicago and Detroit. In 1985, she earned a degree in marketing and communications from the University of Michigan.