As a child, Andres actually started in the arts through dance--a protege of jazz legend Gus Giordano.

As a teen, he took 1st at U.C. Berkeley's National Forensic League Invitational, for his Dramatic Interpretation of the play "Andersonville Trials," and 4th in the state of California (15th in the nation) for his interpretation of the play "Equus."

At UCLA, he studied British Literature, where he became fluent in French and Italian before graduating cum laude at age 21.

After college, Andres interned for Hollywood legend Robert "The Idolmaker" Marcucci at Chancellor Entertainment as a story analyst for sequels to "Witchboard" and "Drugstore Cowboy." Upon Marcucci's retirement, Andres returned to the Bay Area, where he directed the largest dance studio in the South Bay, The Branham Dance Center, for three years.

At the same time, he founded Academic Advantage Home Tutoring of Saratoga, which he directed for 12 years.

He now works for the city of San José (Santa Clara County) for which he has taught film for 20 years. His students have gone onto Chapman, USC, Lion's Gate and Disney-- winning a total of four Emmy's.

His Black Dove Entertainment has produced over 10 features for Amazon, Prime and Tubi which, distributed worldwide, have been translated into: Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Czech, Russian, Kazakh, Turkish, Mandarin, Indonesian and Hebrew.