Andrew Wagner Biography
Director Andrew Wagner graduated from Brown University with degrees in Creative Writing and Psychology. He attended NYU's Graduate School for Film where his short, The Hardest Hit, won the Francois de Menil Scholarship. He moved to Los Angeles to write WACCABUC, a screenplay for United Artists, and director Mark Rydell. Andrew then became a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute where he received a Masters in Fine Arts and his thesis film, The Last Days Of Hope And Time, won the Franklin J. Shaffner Fellowship for excellence in directing. Andrew then adapted The Man Who Gave Up His Name, a novella by Jim Harrison, author of Legends of the Fall, which he developed at the Sundance Writer's Lab. Since then he has directed the independent shorts, South Main and Counting, and was the cinematographer on Julie Delpy's film Looking For Jimmy. He has also written Splitting, The Halfcourt, Hunting The Vicious, Southern Man, and most recently co-wrote Starting Out In The Evening, an adaptation of the Pen/Faulkner nominee novel of the same title which he will direct for InDigEnt in 2006. The Talent Given Us won the 2004 Jury Prize at CineVegas, the 2004 Audience Award at Dances With Films, the 2005 Best First Feature at Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and was an official selection at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival.
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