Andy Brewster
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About Me

After starting his filmmaking journey in middle school as a YouTube partner producing LEGO stop motion animation, Andy graduated with top honors from Biola University with a B.A. in Cinema and Media Arts. There he directed/produced dozens of projects including award-winning shorts (Caesura, A Piacere, After Yesterday) that have screened at festivals internationally and premiered on sites such as Film Shortage. While in school he worked as a College Ambassador with the Producers Guild of America (PGA) and produced two feature films including All is Calm (2020) and Rubaru (2022), Audience Choice winner at the 2021 International Christian Film Festival in Orlando and now distributed by Green Apple Entertainment.

After graduating, Andy spent a year in Los Angeles as a producer building Action Studios, a startup production company based near Los Angeles that specializes in genre, VFX, and influencer content. In 2022 he returned to Raleigh as a supporting partner at The 541 Co. producing and working on commercial content for agencies and influencers like Mr. Beast. The partnerships forged at The 541 Co. led to founding Triality with Nicholas Kunstle in 2024, a production company specializing in technologically-driven solutions that utilize Unreal Engine, virtual production, and compassionately disruptive pipelines for entertainment and commercial projects. Through and adjacent to Triality, he is also producing cinematic immersive VR experiences with partners in Hollywood and is excited to announce those partnerships and projects soon.

In late 2023, Andy founded Wayfinder Pictures as his own development and production company to produce and direct independent features at the intersection of fantasy, adventure, and magical realism. He and his Los Angeles based team of creatives are excited to unveil their first feature film project soon.

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 The Shepherd’s Church orchestra when in NC, occasionally records for indie albums, 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 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, 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 - 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