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.
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Screenwriter James Handel joins us to discuss his genre-bending career and Powell & Pressburger’s psychological masterpiece Black Narcissus, a stunning exploration of faith, desire, and control.
We continue our Hannibal Lecter series with the continuation of Hannibal and Clarice Starling, 10 years later. Ridley Scott’s at the helm with Julianne Moore as Starling. How well does it work? Tune in to hear us discuss Scott’s 2001 film Hannibal.
Explore the revolutionary Iranian New Wave cinema movement, from its poetic documentaries to neorealist dramas. Join Andy and film studies professor Kaveh Askari to discover how these groundbreaking films transformed global cinema.
We continue our members-only season-long Roger Corman series with a film he produced – Penelope Spheeris’ brilliant 1983 film Suburbia. It’s a powerful glimpse into disaffected punk youth in the early 80s.
We continue our Hannibal Lecter series exploring everyone’s favorite cannibalistic serial killer with inarguably the best film in the series and the one that gave us Anthony Hopkins’ take on Lecter, it’s Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.
We kick off our Hannibal Lecter series with a conversation about the first of the adaptations from Thomas Harris’ novel ‘Red Dragon’. It’s Michael Mann’s 1986 film ‘Manhunter.’
We wrap up our People Hunting People series with a film that’s a fantastic spin on reality television, where the entire film is designed like a marathon series episode. It’s Daniel Minahan’s 2001 film “Series 7: The Contenders.”
Podcast advertising is a weird, wonderful paradox—should brands go big and broad or small and targeted? Pete and Andy break down the latest PodScribe report, revealing why niche podcasts punch above their weight, YouTube’s podcast takeover is slower than expected, and tracking pixels might just know too much about your shopping habits.
We continue our People Hunting People series with a film that’s exactly what a 90s action film should be full of all the right 90s action faces – Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, and F. Murray Abraham. It’s Ernest R. Dickerson’s film Surviving the Game!
Dennis Bartok and Craig Rogers, the co-founders of film distribution company Deaf Crocodile, join us to discuss their careers, the joys and struggles of film distribution, and one of the films they not only love but that they’ve recently restored, Michael Schaack’s 1994 film Felidae!