ANDY BREWSTER
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About Me

Andy Brewster is a producer and director working at the intersection of immersive experiences, independent film, and commercial content. With a background in traditional production and influencer content, Andy’s work seeks to bridge the gaps between shifting categories in today’s rapidly evolving entertainment landscape. From project financing and AI-driven tools to new questions about how the very medium of “immersive” content functions, Andy looks for ways to compassionately disrupt the creation process and tell stories that inspire and provoke audiences to ask good questions.

Starting as a YouTube Partner in middle school, Andy has since directed influencers like splack in cinematic short films and assistant directed for names like Mr. Beast. In the corporate space, Andy produced for brands like Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Bandwidth, Golf Digest, Sharefile, and Ryan Reynolds’ agency MNTN. While still an undergraduate student, he produced award winning short films that screened internationally (“Caesura,” “A Piacere”) and two micro-budget feature films: All is Calm (2020) and Rubaru (2022), Audience Choice winner at the 2021 International Christian Film Festival.

Andy was instrumental in launching North Carolina’s first LED volume for virtual production. Through those partnerships he founded Triality with Nicholas Kunstle to specialize in technology-driven solutions for visual storytelling. Outside of projects there, he acts as an independent producer while spearheading his own stories under the label of Wayfinder Pictures which he founded in 2023.

Andy is also a classically-trained violinist, has performed as a soloist in the US, Canada, and Germany, and has studied with artists such as the Shanghai String Quartet, Aizuri Quartet, Brian Reagin, Rebekah Binford, Elizabeth Beilman, Lisa Malcolm, and Elizabeth Larson. He held a seat in the Triangle Youth Philharmonic for 5 years, has been a member of 4 different quartets including the WCPE String Quartet with the North Carolina Chamber Music Institute, performed with the NC Symphony multiple times, and sat as a principal player and concertmaster of the Biola Symphony Orchestra. In recent years he entered the recording sphere for film scores and led as concertmaster for The Brilliance's new album, "World Keeps Spinning” and sat as the second chair in the Raleigh Civic Orchestra in 2024. He currently plays with his NC church’s orchestra when in the Tar Heel State and is excited to continue exploring the sounds of his electric violin.

 
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-Select Awards-

Winner: Audience Choice (Feature): International Christian Film and Music Festival, 2021 (Rubaru)

Nominee: Best Director (Marco Zambrana), Best Screenplay (Marco Zambrana), Best Actor (Nathan Mizzi), and Best Supporting Actor (Matthew Rhodes): International Christian Film and Music Festival, 2021 (Rubaru)

Top 20 Finalist: Film Riot’s 2020 Make Film Competition (Journey)

Winner: Judges’ Choice: Best Narrative: Longleaf Film Festival 2022 (Caesura)

Winner: Best Fantasy Film: Longleaf Film Festival 2024 (For the Taking)

Winner: Best Picture: Biola’s Guerrilla Student Film Festival, 2020 (Caesura)

Winner: Best Director: Biola’s Guerrilla Student Film Festival, 2020 (Caesura)

Winner: Best Produced Screenplay: Biola’s Guerrilla Student Film Festival, 2020 (Caesura)

Best Pick of the Month, May 2021: Film Shortage, 2021 (Caesura)

Winner: Best Fantasy: Longleaf Film Festival 2024 (For the Taking)

Nominee: Best Picture: Biola’s Guerrilla Student Film Festival, 2019 (An Ode to Solitude)

Nominee: Best Picture: Biola’s Guerilla Student Film Festival, 2020 (Journey)

Winner: Best Student Film: Mindfield Film Festival Los Angeles, 2019 (A Piacere)

Nominee: Best Picture: Biola Film Festival, 2018 (A Piacere) 

Winner: Best Film: Glass Tulip Film Festival, 2017 (After Yesterday)

Winner: Audience Choice: Screenings at Sonorous, 2017 (After Yesterday)

Winner: Best Film: Screenings at Sonorous, 2017 (After Yesterday)

Award of Merit: HIFF, 2017 (After Yesterday)

Nominee: Best Student Film: ENCFF 2017 (After Yesterday)

Semi-finalist: Biola University High School Screenwriting Contest, 2017 (After Yesterday)

Semi-Finalist: Coca-Cola/Regal Films Challenge, 2019

-Official Selections-

ACAFILMS Low Film Festival - Biola University Annual High School Screenwriting Competition - Biola Film Festival/Guerrilla Student Film Festival - BrickFlix - Cape Fear Independent Film Festival - Carolina Film Community Screening - Eastern NC Film Festival - Film Riot’s Make Film Competition - Film Shortage - Glass Tulip Film Festival - HIFF - Hollywood Screenings Film Festival - International Christian Film and Music Festival (ICFF) - Longleaf Film Festival - Los Angeles Cinefest - Los Angeles Feedback Film & Screenplay Festival - Mindfield Film Festival Los Angeles - Motion for Pictures - Newport Beach Film Fest (Collegiate Block) - Norfolk Film Festival - North Carolina Film Festival - Paris Lift Off Film Festival - Raleigh Film & Art Festival - Screenings at Sonorous - Super International Teenager Film Festival - Sweet As Film Festival

-Degrees and Academic Awards at Biola University-

  • B.A. in Cinema & Media Arts with a concentration in Production

  • Minor in music with violin as primary instrument

  • Graduated summa cum laude

  • Induction in Epsilon Kappa Epsilon (the university’s premiere honor society for the top 5% of each graduating class)

  • Recognition as his film school’s “Student of the Year” for his class

  • Perpetual membership in the Torrey Honors College through which he studied abroad at Cambridge University in England