Beginning in 1992, Humes began to shoot and collect footage of her sisters, Norman Mailer, Timothy Leary, George Plimpton and others who had known her father well.
[2] After working in television for several years, Humes directed A Little Vicious, a short documentary film about Bandit, a dog who had been sentenced to death for biting.
Narrated by actor Kevin Bacon, and featuring dog trainer/philosopher Vicki Hearne, this "offbeat documentary" was lauded by the New York Times reviewer as paying "rewarding attention to the little peculiarities of all involved.
[4] After working as an associate producer for A Life Apart: Hasidism in America, a film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky, in 2001 Humes made a documentary on Canadian anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis for the National Geographic Channel.
[6] Immy graduated with honors from Harvard University in the field of Social Studies, and commenced a media career in filmmaking, interning at Boston's WGBH-TV public television station.