Meet the Hosts

Andy Nelson

With over 25 years of experience in film, television, and commercial production, Andy has cultivated an enduring passion for storytelling in all its forms. His enthusiasm for the craft began in his youth when he and his friends started making their own movies in grade school. After studying film at the University of Colorado Boulder, Andy wrote, directed, and produced several short films while also producing indie features like Netherbeast Incorporated and Ambush at Dark Canyon.

Andy has been on the production team for award-winning documentaries such as The Imposter and The Joe Show, as well as TV shows like Investigation Discovery's Deadly Dentists and Nat Geo's Inside the Hunt for the Boston Bombers. Over a decade ago, he started podcasting with Pete and immediately embraced the medium. Now, as a partner at TruStory FM, Andy looks forward to more storytelling through their wide variety of shows.

Throughout his career, Andy has passed on his knowledge by teaching young minds the crafts of screenwriting, producing, editing, and podcasting.

Outside of work, Andy is a family man who enjoys a good martini, a cold beer, a nice cup o' joe. And always, of course, a great movie.

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Andy has hosted as well as been a panelist on a number of episodes.
This page features episodes on which he has been a host.
See episodes where Andy has been a panelist right here.

The Next Reel • Season 16 • Series: Platformed Lives • Sorry to Bother You

Sorry to Bother You

We unpack Sorry to Bother You, closing our Platformed Lives series with Boots Riley’s overdubbed white voices, code-switching satire, and a wild turn into science fiction.

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The Next Reel • Season 16 • Series: Platformed Lives • Nightcrawler

Nightcrawler

Lou Bloom doesn’t stumble into the stringer world—he’s always been exactly this person. Pete and Andy dig into Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy’s darkly funny American classic.

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The Next Reel • Season 16 • Series: Platformed Lives • The Truman Show

The Truman Show

We kick off our new Platformed Lives series with The Truman Show, unpacking consent, hidden cameras, and a life lived entirely on camera for the world to see.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Horror Debuts • Talk to Me

Talk to Me

A cursed hand. A grieving teenager. A party trick that goes terribly, supernaturally wrong. Pete and Andy close out Horror Debuts with the Philippou brothers.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Couples on the Run • Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy

Bart loves guns. Laurie loves crime. Together they’re inevitable—and doomed. Andy and Pete dig into Joseph H. Lewis’s scorching 1950 film noir Gun Crazy.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Zhang Yimou • Shadow

Shadow

Zhang Yimou’s ink-wash wuxia epic Shadow features a secret double, bladed umbrellas, and one of the most visually committed films of his career.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Zhang Yimou • House of Flying Daggers

House of Flying Daggers

Zhang Yimou trades empire for intimacy in this wuxia companion to Hero—two officers fall for the same woman, loyalties collapse, and the visuals are almost too gorgeous to look away from.

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