Immy Humes is an American documentary filmmaker and television producer. Her films and videos tell engaging real stories in a distinctive voice, recognizable for its intelligence, irony, and humor. Her works treat serious underlying social and political themes in a variety of formats and styles, and her subjects have ranged widely, from madness to Bill Clinton and from murder to dogs. Immy’s independent feature, DOC, opened to many excellent reviews at NYC’s Film Forum (2008) and aired nationally on PBS' Independent Lens. About her late father, HL “Doc” Humes, the film is a stylistically original take on a literary “beautiful mind,” a political, personal, and cultural tale of mental illness, politics, and creativity. Thanks to the film, Random House republished HL Humes’ two acclaimed novels, which had been out of print for 50 years. Immy has received honors including an Academy Award nomination, screenings at Film Forum and MOMA in NYC; festivals in Amsterdam (IDFA), Leningrad, Mannheim, Los Angeles (AFI), Florida, and Arkansas (Hot Springs); and INPUT, the annual public TV conference. Her films have aired on POV (PBS), and many other TV channels here and abroad. She has won grants and fellowships from MacDowell, Blue Mountain, the NEA, NYSCA, Jerome, Robeson, Soros (now Sundance Fund), ITVS, NEH, CPB, and other funders.
Immy Humes
Studios
Sprague-Smith
Immy Humes worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.
In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…