ANDY BREWSTER
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About Me

Andy Brewster is a producer, 1st AD, and director based in North Carolina and Los Angeles, California. With a background spanning traditional production and influencer-driven storytelling, Andy’s work focuses on bridging the gaps between evolving forms of media in today’s rapidly shifting entertainment landscape.

Beginning as a YouTube Partner in middle school, Andy has since directed influencers such as @splack in cinematic short films and served as 1st Assistant Director on large-scale productions for creators including MrBeast. In the commercial and branded space, Andy has produced projects for clients such as Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies, Bandwidth, Golf Digest, ShareFile, and Ryan Reynolds’ agency MNTN.

While still an undergraduate student, Andy produced award-winning short films that screened internationally, including “Caesura” and “A Piacere,” as well as two micro-budget feature films: All Is Calm (2020) and Rubaru (2022), the latter of which won the Audience Choice Award at the 2021 International Christian Film Festival.

Most recently, Andy Co-Produced and served as 1st Assistant Director on May and the Woodsman, an independent feature film produced by Iris Indie and Hal Lieberman (Bridge to Terabithia, Terminator 3). Alongside his freelance producing work, Andy develops original narrative projects under Wayfinder Pictures, a production label 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 occasionally plays with community ensembles 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