Film as literature in blank verse since 2001
Company
Black Dove Entertainment
Legal Representative
Santucci Law
Andres started in the arts as a child through dance, ultimately to become a protege of jazz legend Gus Giordano.
As a teen, he took 1st place, at U.C. Berkeley's National Forensic League West Coast Invitational for his Dramatic Interpretation of the play "Andersonville Trials", and 4th place in the state of California (15th in the United States) for his interpretation of Peter Shaffer's "Equus."
In college, at UCLA, Andres studied British Literature, French and Italian before graduating cum laude at age 21. While in LA he also interned for Hollywood legend Robert "The Idolmaker" Marcucci at Chancellor Entertainment as a story analyst for sequels to Gus van Sant's "Drugstore Cowboy" and Kevin Tenney's "Witchboard" franchise.
Upon Marcucci's retirement, Andres returned to the South Bay, where he was tasked to restore San Jose's largest dance studio, The Branham Dance Center, from bankruptcy. Having done so in just three years, creating Atlas at Branham, he returned to his love of academia, founding and directing Academic Advantage Home Tutoring of Saratoga for 12 years and teaching AP (college) literature and film for the city of San Jose.
After 9/11, with the onset of the Internet and the rise of illiteracy in its wake, Andres used film as the new novel. He founded Black Dove Entertainment, inventing in iambic pentameter in film. For his first production, "Kidschool", he gave his best high school student $92,000 budget to direct a short about the state of Public Education after Columbine. It was distributed by PBS, became an Official Selection at Cinequest (the San Jose International Film Festival), Cleveland International (the second oldest US film-festival) and outsold "Harry Potter" opening weekend on the largest screen in Northern California and the 10th largest city in the US.
For his second film, a feature about Mexican immigration, Andres made his directorial debut and joined the p.g.a.. The film, "Father Son Holy Ghost", featuring 90's cult star Steve ("Amongst Friends") Parlavecchio won a silver Palm at The Mexico International Film Festival and was picked up by ITN Distribution.
With the economic Crash of '07 and the demise of Blockbuster Home Video, however, Andres had to shoot his third film, "Layla Live or Die". a psycho-cop/dance hybrid, on Panasonic instead of 35mm/Dolby.
For his fourth film, "Killing Eva Braun", Andres shot on RED and RED EPIC cameras. This film, about the California Book Ban of 2009, had the notoriety of being itself banned by Amazon and banning all of Andres' films from making any money on Youtube.. Indeed, over a decade later, Cheezy Movies is still the sole distributor of "Killing Eva Braun".
After inadvertently becoming one of the most offensive filmmakers in the world, Andres adapted two books instead of original screenplays of his own: "The Gospels", inspired by Pasolini, and "Antony and Cleopatra", inspired by "MacBeth" and Polanski.
Today, in the 2020's, Andres continues to make controversial films, micro-budget, outside the Studio system, for TUBI., They have been translated into Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, Kazakh, Turkish, Mandarin, Indonesian and Hebrew.
Best Indie Feature
Killing Eva Braun
Florence Film Awards
Florence
2023
Official Selection
Lottery Girl
Shockfest Film Festival
Birmingham
2021
Best DI
Antony and Cleopatra 2020
Mumbai International Film Festival
Mumbai
2021
Official Selection
My Roommate Enzo
Mumbai International Film Festival
Mumbai
Official Selection
Gospels
Mumbai International Film Festival
Mumbai
Silver Palm
FSHG
Mexico International Film Festival
Winner--best student short
Kidschool
Zoiefest
Official Selection
Kidschool
Cleveland International Film Festival
Cleveland
Official Selection
Kidschool
Cinequest
San Jose
Official Selection
Layla: Live or Die
Mumbai International
Mumbai
College
UCLA
Gender
Male
Eye Color
Green
Zodiac Sign
Taurus
"The budget is the aesthetic."--Hal Hartley
"The Truth is a plain picture."--Bob Dylan, "Don't Look Back"
"What's the point of film school if you don't know how to make a low-budget movie because that's what you're going to faced with eventually?"--"De Palma"
Film as literature in blank verse since 2001
Company
Black Dove Entertainment
Legal Representative
Santucci Law
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