Amanda Palmer is Al Jazeera English's Entertainment Editor and Presenter.
A versatile journalist in front of and behind the camera, Amanda Palmer conceived the network's flagship entertainment programmes, The Fabulous Picture Show (FPS) and 48.
As well as producing and hosting the shows, Amanda also leads a talented team in covering international entertainment for the network.

The Fabulous Picture Show is a truly international film show and one of the most unique film shows dedicated to global cinemaphiles. FPS is hosted from a real working cinema, in London's Everyman Cinema, where it screens free films to cinema audiences and then bring film-makers from across the world face-to-face with those international audiences for honest and open Q&A sessions.

The FPS team also scours the biggest international film festivals all year round - from Sundance to Berlin, Venice, Cannes, Rome, Toronto, Marrakech, Dubai and this year Doha, just to name a few - in search of the world's best films.

This year Amanda is also helping to bring a groundbreaking film festival to Qatar, the Doha Tribeca Film Festival. Amanda was integral in bringing together a cultural partnership between New York's renowned Tribeca Film Festival (which was co-founded by Robert DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff) and Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority Board of Trustees.

Amanda is on the organising committee for the Doha Tribeca Film Festival which will first take place in October 2009 and be held at Doha's celebrated new Museum of Islamic Art. H.E. Sheikha Mayassa has expressed her confidence that the Doha Tribeca Film Festival will bring together people from around the globe and help to build international awareness and understanding of Arab culture and the Arab world.

During the festival, Amanda will also host FPS events with some of the filmmakers she has interviewed in recent years on FPS. Amongst those high-profile interviews with acclaimed international filmmakers and stars, highlights include; Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppolla, George Clooney, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Michel Gondry, David Cronenberg, Danny Boyle, Errol Morris, Nick Broomfield, Dario Argento, Michael Winterbottom, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Dennis Hopper, Russell Crowe, Joseph Fiennes, Joan Chen, Gabriel Byrne, Russell Crowe, Michelle Yeoh, Ryan Reynolds, William Dafoe, Lord of The Rings composer Howard Shore and Atonement composer Dario Marianelli, as well as award-winning costume designer Gabriella Pescucci.

Amanda studied vocal performance at the Australian Institute of Music (AIM) and journalism (BAComm) at Sydney's University of Technology before becoming a national reporter for Channel Seven, Australia.

After seven years' news and current affairs reporting, Amanda relocated to London to become foreign correspondent for Channel Seven and later joined CNN's Business International and co-hosted CNN's Music Room. During that time, Amanda travelled to Moscow to interview Paul McCartney for his first concert performance in Russia, met Sting in Venice, The Black Eyed Peas in Verona, as well as Beyonce, Kylie Minogue (several times!), Dido and Italian music icons Zucchero and Eros Ramazzotti.

Amanda worked with Associated Press Television Network before joining Al Jazeera English in August 2005.