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Andrew Reid is a disabled Jamaican-Cuban storyteller who migrated to the United States at the age of 10. He was an undocumented immigrant for several years before receiving US citizenship under the wet foot, dry foot policy from the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. He uses his multicultural Caribbean identity and the visual medium to create stories grounded in drama but not bound by genre.

He is a DGA Award winning director and MFA graduate from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. His award-winning projects have screened at Slamdance, CAA Moebius, Paramount Pictures, HollyShorts, Cleveland, Pan African and over 60 other film festivals worldwide. He was recently nominated at the NAACP Image Awards and was a finalist for the HBOMax Latino Short Film competition.

In 2022, Reid was a ViewFinder Emerging Director with Paramount TV Studios where he shadowed director Pete Chatmon (Insecure, The Flight Attendant, You) on the show Fatal Attraction. He is developing feature, episodic and commercial projects that have received support from the Tribeca Film Institute, SFFilm, Film Independent, The Gotham and Sloan Foundation.

Reid was also selected for the 2022 Commercial Directors Diversity Program and his commercial clients include On Running Shoes, Intel and RespectAbility. He has produced several short films and has studio experience at Artists Equity, Pearl Street Films, NBCUniversal and Discovery Communications.

You can learn more at www.ReidtheStory.com