Tasya van Ree has directed a beautiful black and white short film titled starring her girlfriend, Amber Heard. Titled Amber Heard – Death of Me, it is gorgeously filmed with stunning, intimate shots featuring an enigmatic and seductive, yet tender and loving, femme fatale, personified by Amber. The camera just loves her – and it has been a while, I feel, that we’ve seen Amber appear this open, relaxed and natural in film. Check out the video in glorious high definition on YouTube or under the cut. It is definitely a must see for all of the fans!

Here’s to hoping that Tasya and Amber will collaborate on other short films in the future because I simply love this one!

The trailer for The River Why has made it’s premiere online finally. I was really eager to see Amber in this ‘de-glamorized’ role and she still looks absolutely gorgeous! I am really excited to see her on screen with Zach Gilford who I think is also very talented. Check it out for yourself below the page break. Thanks to Jessica for informing us that the trailer was available!

The River Why is an adaptation of the 1983 Sierra Club novel by David James Duncan. The coming-of-age tale centers on a young man named Gus Orviston (Zach Gilford) and his quest for an elusive rainbow trout, which is a metaphor for the man’s internal search for self-knowledge. Heard plays his love interest, a tomboy fly-fisher named Eddy.

Be sure to check out new interviews of Amber discussing Drive Angry 3D at Comic Con over at MovieWeb and ShockTillYouDrop.com. The latter, especially, is worth a view as it is rather lengthy and sees Amber discuss Mandy Lane and her other upcoming projects as well. Screencaps of both interviews have been added in the gallery.

Below you can check out a few videos from Comic-Con which feature Amber. The first is an interview conducted by Fandango and the other two feature bits from the panel discussion of the film.

A brief teaser for Drive Angry 3D which debuted at Comic-Con is now online and can be watched in the player below. Unfortunately this doesn’t have any footage of the before mentioned Amber scenes but it gives you an idea of the film at least.

As some of you knew, back in 2003, before Amber Heard had even starred in a single movie, she appeared in a couple of country music videos. We only knew the artists for them and not the songs themselves so we’d always hoped the material would be found one day. Well today after a tip from T.S. King and a little bit of research we now have them!

She appeared in Kenny Chesney’s “There Goes My Life” and Brooks & Dunn’s “Red Dirt Road”. Amber must have been around 17 when she filmed these. Screencaps are available in the gallery and the videos can be found on YouTube. She looks very pretty as always!

Hopefully soon more of Amber’s “early day” films and side projects will surface!

Enjoy this rare treat!

Many thanks to Frederik for informing us that Canal Plus’ ”Histoire de Cinema” has aired an in-depth report on the shooting of The Ward. It includes an interview with John Carpenter and an exclusive look behind the scenes. The complete segment can be watched here. While you’re at it, be sure to pay a visit to Frederik’s site dedicated to Mamie Gummer, Amber’s co-star in the film.

Yesterday, Amber Heard was on hand to accept the Dallas International Film Festival Shining Star Award at the Angelika Film Center on April 10, 2010, her film The Joneses was also premiering. Amber was a lady in red, dawning a crimson floral printed dress and vivid red lips. Truly gorgeous! Unfortunately we only have been able to find two pictures (via Max, thanks!). I hope we’ll find more because I’d like to see more of her look and this big achievement for her.

The official film festival website uploaded a video of raw footage of her accepting her award. In it Amber gives thanks and you can see her mom who was in the audience. Watch it below, a transcript of some of her speech to follow.

“Hi, I’m Amber Heard. And it might be a surprise, but I am afraid of public speaking – it scares the hell out of me – so I’m gonna do my best. I even made notes. I got as far as to write ‘Hi, I’m Amber!’.

I just wanna say how happy this makes me, how proud I am to be back in Texas to receive this award and how incredibly honored I am. It’s truly something to start off in theatre classes and as a background actor in Dallas and Austin or wherever you can find work and then find yourself a few years later, here. So thank you. It means a lot to me.”