Empower
The Breaking Free Show TM:
October 27th - Andy Abrahams Wilson
Founder and president of Open Eye Pictures, Andy serves as the company's Executive Director and Senior Producer. A multi-award winning, Emmy-nominated producer and director of creative non-fiction films, Andy received a BA in cultural anthropology from Northwestern University, and an MA in visual anthropology from the University of Southern California, where he also studied at the USC School of Cinema.
Andy’s approach emphasizes the moving image as a way to bridge disparate parts, peoples and ideas. While his work takes on controversial themes, he uses the filmmaking process as an opportunity to encourage empathy and identification. His recent production, the ITVS-funded THE GROVE, was broadcast on PBS and inspired the mobile app Tributopia, for which Andy serves as project director.
His acclaimed film UNDER OUR SKIN is the recipient of seven best documentary awards at international film festivals and was an Academy Award semifinalist for Best Documentary Feature. Andy's films have been shown on HBO, PBS, CBC, the Showtime Networks, and in theaters and film festivals worldwide. A recipient of a Pew Charitable Trust Fellowship in Dance/Media, he is the two-time Grand Prize recipient at the Dance on Camera Film Festival.
Andy is a former budget director of the film distribution cooperative New Day Films and member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He has received numerous foundation grants, including the California Council for the Humanities, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Laurance Rockefeller Foundation, the Columbia Foundation, the Wells Fargo Foundation and the Educational Foundation of America. He has been recognized by the Northern California Marin Arts Council as Outstanding Artist, and by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences with honors for Outstanding Documentary Achievement.
In addition to making films, Wilson also teaches a workshop on "Photography as Meditation and Mirror" at the world-renowned Esalen Institute.
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