Andy Cohen
Born (1965-03-16) 16 March 1965
New York, New York
Occupation(s)Director, Producer, Journalist
Websitehttps://www.acfilmsinc.com/

Andrew "Andy" Cohen (born March 16, 1965) is a three-time Emmy nominated and four-time Oscar short-listed independent filmmaker[1][2][3] and journalist. The founder of AC Films Inc, Cohen has directed, written, and produced feature-length and short-form films.

Career

He produced and co-wrote his first film in 1996, Gaylen Ross' Dealers Among Dealers,[4][5] about the New York City diamond business. Cohen would later co-write and produce Ross' 2008 documentary Killing Kasztner on the life and assassination of Rezso Kasztner.[6][7]

Cohen's work as a producer includes To Kill a Tiger (2024, short-listed Academy Award for Best Documentary )[8], Ai Weiwei's Human Flow (2017, short-listed Academy Award for Best Documentary),[9][10] Hooligan Sparrow (2016, short-listed Academy Award for Best Documentary ),[11][12][13][14] Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012, short-listed Academy Award for Best Documentary ),[15][16][17] and The World Before Her (2012, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival).

His work has been screened at festivals around the world, including the Venice Film Festival,[18] Telluride, Tribeca Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival among others.

Cohen wrote and directed the documentary Ximei (2019 Movies that Matter Activist Award),[19][20] which premiered at the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights in Geneva.[21] Produced by Ai Weiwei, the film is centered around Liu Ximei, a Chinese peasant woman infected with AIDS during China’s Black Blood Economy in the 1990s. Production of Ximei[22] lasted seven years, due to interference from Chinese officials; Cohen's phone and internet messages were spied on and parts of footage were regularly confiscated.[23]

Cohen also participated in Global Geneva's first ‘Youth Writes’ (Young Journalists and Writers Initiative) workshop in Versoix, Switzerland, in March 2019, helping high school students better understand the role of documentary film reporting.[24]

His feature-length documentary, Beijing Spring (2021, Amnesty International / FIFA jury Award) chronicles China's first Democracy movement and protest demonstration for artistic freedom following China's brutal Cultural Revolution.[25][26]

Crossing over from documentary to fiction, Cohen produced his first narrative feature, Little Death 2024, starring David Schwimmer, directed by Jack Begert, written by Dani Goffstein and Jack Begert, produced alongside Psycho Films and Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures, premiering at Sundance Film Festival.[27][28]

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Andy Cohen". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  2. ↑ "Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry". Motto Pictures. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  3. ↑ "Chinese Documentary 'Hooligan Sparrow' Makes Oscar Shortlist |". chinafilminsider.com. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  4. ↑ "Dealers Among Dealers | POV | PBS".
  5. ↑ "Credits | Dealers Among Dealers | POV | PBS". 1995-01-11.
  6. ↑ Holden, Stephen (2009-10-22). "Rudolf Kastner, Who Was (or Wasn't?) a Holocaust Hero". The New York Times.
  7. ↑ "Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt with Nazis -- Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. 20 October 2009.
  8. ↑ "The Oscar-shortlisted To Kill a Tiger is a tender yet triumphant film about rape in India". January 3, 2024.
  9. ↑ Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Ai Weiwei's film 'Human Flow' makes Oscar shortlist | DW | 08.12.2017". DW.COM. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  10. ↑ "Refugee Crisis Doc 'Human Flow' Acquired by Amazon (Exclusive". The Hollywood Reporter). 16 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Gleiberman, Owen (2016-07-22). "Film Review: 'Hooligan Sparrow'". Variety. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  12. ↑ "Credits | Hooligan Sparrow | POV | PBS". 2016-01-10.
  13. ↑ "Nanfu Wang: 2018 Chicken & Egg Award Recipient". Chicken & Egg Pictures. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  14. ↑ Inc, POV | American Documentary. "POV Documentary 'Hooligan Sparrow' Wins a Peabody Award". POV's Documentary Blog. Retrieved 2022-09-28. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  15. ↑ "AI Weiwei: Never Sorry".
  16. ↑ "Motto Pictures » AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY".
  17. ↑ "Emmy Awards 2022: Award winners and highlights". NBC News. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  18. ↑ "AI Weiwei Refugee Crisis Film Human Flow to be Screened at Venice".
  19. ↑ "XIMEI".
  20. ↑ "La Via della Seta ha un baco, i diritti umani". L'HuffPost. March 28, 2019.
  21. ↑ "Film". fifdh.info.
  22. ↑ "Ximei, la activista que desafía al gigante - Proceso". Archived from the original on 2019-04-28.
  23. ↑ "Ximei documentary premieres at Geneva Human Rights Film Festival". euronews. March 19, 2019.
  24. ↑ "China and the Golden Veins of Henan: A film-maker's view | Global Geneva".
  25. ↑ "'Beijing Spring' documents China's forgotten struggle for freedom". September 25, 2017.
  26. ↑ Rodek, Hanns-Georg (8 August 2019). "AI Weiwei: Warum ich Berlin und Deutschland verlasse. Eine Abrechnung". Die Welt.
  27. ↑ Begert, Jack, Little Death (Drama), Psycho Films, Protozoa Pictures, AC Films, retrieved 2022-09-26
  28. ↑ "Sundance Film Festival unveils 2024 line-up; Steven Soderbergh returns, Christopher Reeve doc to open". December 6, 2023.
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