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Born in London, Amanda Street grew up with both parents in the music industry. Her father a musician and recording artist in the 1960's with Emile Ford & The Checkmates and her mother the President of fan clubs for Jimi Hendrix, The Animals, Dave Clark Five and The Osmonds! Her background is a varied one but she's always gravitated back to music.

Amanda studied graphic design at Ravensbourne College of Design & Communications and then went on to do an honours degree at Middlesex University where she specialised in Photography. During this time she received the Thames Television Photography Award, The Hunters Armley Print Award and her photography and art direction contributed to winning the Champagne Mumm Admirals Cup Award.

On leaving Middlesex, Amanda joined 4D Films, a production company specialising in music videos and commercials.During this period she worked on 15 music videos, 2 'rockumentaries!' and a fewcommercials.Artists included: Blur, Take That, Glenn Frey, Iron Maiden, Eric Clapton, Lulu & Bobby Womack and Frank Zappa. While working at 4D, she experimented with Super 8mm and 16mm film and shot and edited a few short films. Her award-winning short Oliver Reed was recently included in Twenty Twenty's documentary The Real Oliver Reed for Channel 4.

After two years with 4D, Amanda worked at various record labels including Epic, Columbia, S2 (Sony Music Entertainment) within Video Commissioning, Chrysalis Reocords & Cooltempo (EMI Records) in Promotions, Mercury Records (Polygram) within A&R, Parlophone (EMI) within Video, Marketing & Press and A&M Records (Polygram) within the Art Department.

She then went on to join MTV Europe and worked in Studio Management rostering crews for their live show Most Wanted, the studios and transmission suites.

A year on, she was hired to do the stills photography on Anand Tucker's Saint-Ex (starring Miranda Richardson and Bruno Ganz) for BBC Films / Majestic Films.

On completion of Saint-Ex, Amanda joined Channel 4 Television / FilmFour Ltd where she worked for 7 years. During this time she worked within the drama department to David Aukin and documentaries with producers and production managers on strands: Secret Lives, Cutting Edge, Encounters, Undercover Britain, Short Stories, To The Ends Of The Earth and all documentary series.

After 2 years she moved over to FilmFour International to the position of Film Sales Executive where she was involved in the sales and marketing of feature films at all the major film festivals & markets. Films included: Danny Boyle's Trainspotting, Mark Herman's Brassed Off!, Michael Winterbottom's Welcome To Sarajevo, Damien O'Donnell's East is East, Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, Joel Hopkins' Jump Tomorrow, Julien Temple's The Filth & The Fury, Allison Anders' Sugar Town,Tim Roth's The War Zone, Paul McGuigan's Gangster No.1, Peter Cattaneo's Lucky Break, Werner Herzog's Invincible, John McKay's Crush, Gillian Armstrong's Charlotte Gray, Marc Mundan's Miranda, Alan Taylor's The Emperor's New Clothes and Asif Kapardia's The Warrior.

Amanda then went on to work as a Music Consultant in the Film & Television sector. Some of the films and programmes she has beeninvolved with include: Mike Barker’s To Kill A King, Jane Campion’s In The Cut and Porchlight’s animation series Tutenstein. Some of her key film and television clients included Pathé Pictures and Endemol Entertainment.

In 2003, she set up DNA Music Ltd and apart from her Composer Agent role has completed the score music supervision on Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me (starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, Kate Hudson) for Revolution Films, Jackboots On Whitehall (Ewan McGregor, Rosamund Pike, Timothy Spall, Richard E Grant, Tom Wilkinson, Alan Cumming) for E-Motion and Anand Tucker's Red Riding 1983 (starring David Morrissey and Sean Bean), And When Did You Last See Your Father? (starring Colin Firth and Jim Broadbent) for Number 9 Films / FilmFour (Sony Picture Classics / Disney), Shopgirl (starring Steve Martin and Claire Danes) for Hyde Park Entertainment (Disney), Guy Ritchie's Rock'n'Rolla (starring Gerard Butler, Thandie Newton) for Dark Castle Entertainment / Warner Bros, Pratibha Parmar's Nina’s Heavenly Delights for Kali Films / Priority Pictures, Sean Ellis’ Oscar-nominated Cashback for Lefturn Films and five series (20 films) of Lewis (the spin-off to Inspector Morse) with a sixth in production for Granada / ITV.

Testimonials

"I have worked with Amanda and DNA for more years than I care to remember. She is utterly brilliant at her job, at bringing the best artists possible to the table. Top company as far as I am concerned..."

Anand Tucker

Film Director

"To celebrate your 5 years I would like to say what a joy it is to deal with Amanda and DNA. You always feel in safe hands and always get impeccable service. Always made to feel the project you are working on is the most important film in the world!"

Lol Hammond

Music Supervisor (Vertigo Films)

I really enjoyed with working Amanda at a critical point of my career. She has developed a great roster of composers and I wish her all the very best for the next 5 years"

Ian Neil

Music Supervisor

"With Amanda and DNA it all simply happens - harmoniously"

Bill Anderson

Director 'Lewis' (ITV Productions)

"It's always a joy to work with Amanda and DNA on our TV productions. Everything is handled smoothly and professionally. She delivers results and you can't ask for much more than that. I very much look forward to working with her again in the not too distant future"

Howard Burch

Producer ( Kudos Film & Television)

"Dealing with Amanda and DNA was always a total pleasure - she was helpful and - when need be - very understanding (the cheque was in the post!), well done for five great years - best of luck for the future"

Roy Boulter and Solon Papadopoulos

Producers 'Of Time And The City' (Hurricane Films)

“Amanda has been both a great colleague at Channel Four and now the successful owner of DNA Music. I have enjoyed working with her on many, many projects and found her creative, sincere, honest, trustworthy and extremely personable. I could not recommend her more highly”

Carl O'Connell

Project Manager (Channel 4 Television / Landmark Art)

"I have had the pleasure of working with Amanda on many different projects during the last few years and have always found her to be a totally reliable and supportive colleague in pursuit of our mutual goal of excellence in each one of them"

Andy Brown

Managing Director (London Metropolitan Orchestra)