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Andrew "Andy" Cohen is a 3-time Emmy nominated, independent filmmaker and journalist.
He produced, directed or wrote several award-winning documentaries such as Dealers among Dealers (1996), Killing Kasztner (2008), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012, short-listed for Best Documentary Academy Award®), The World Before Her (2012, Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca Film Festival), Hooligan Sparrow (2016, short-listed for Best Documentary Academy Award®), Human Flow (2017, short-listed for Best Documentary Academy Award®), Ximei (2020, winner Movies that Matter Activist Award), Beijing Spring (2021, Amnesty Int’l/FIFA Jury Award), and To Kill a Tiger (2022, Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival). These films were shown at the FIFDH Geneva, Movies That Matter, Venice Film Festival, Telluride, Tribeca, Traverse City, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival among others, and broadcast on PBS, BBC, UK Ch4, ARTE, Netflix, and Amazon.
Cohen also directed and wrote a nine-part series of short films on China’s leading contemporary artists in collaboration with Art Asia Pacific for which he is a contributing editor.
Crossing over from documentary to fiction, Cohen produced his first narrative feature, Little Death (2023), starring David Schwimmer, directed by Jack Begert, written by Dani Goffstein and Jack Begert, produced along with Psycho Films and Darren Aronofsky’s Protozoa Pictures.
FEATURE FILMS
Dealers Among Dealers (1996) writer, producer
Killing Kasztner (2008) writer, producer
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) producer
The World Before Her (2012) producer
Hooligan Sparrow (2016) producer
Human Flow (2017) producer
Ximei (2019) writer, director, producer
Beijing Spring (2021) writer, director, producer
To Kill a Tiger (2022) producer, creative consultant
Jackie The Wolf (2023) producer, creative consultant
Little Death (2023) producer
Rough & Polished (2024) writer, director, producer
Talking Tacheles (2024) writer, director, producer
Village Gate (2024) writer, director, producer
Ravensbruck (2024) writer, director, producer
Tibetan Void (2024) writer, director, producer
SHORT FILMS
Off the Page Li Xianting (2010) writer, director
Invisible Presence Yan Pei-Ming (2011) writer, director,
My Personal Universe Zhan Wang (2012) writer, director
Reasoning with Idols Wang Guangyi (2012) writer, director
The Sting of Freedom Fang Lijun (2012) writer, director
I’m Almost Crazy Liu Xiaodong (2013) writer, director
Liberté Ma Desheng (2013) writer, director
Headless Disco Kesang Lamdark (2013) writer, director
Holding Up Half the Sky Yu Hong (2013) writer, director
Arrested Deng Chuanbin (2019) writer, director
La Petite Mort (2019) producer
Release the Children Wang Zang (2021) writer, director
The Mirrored Facades of Utopia Zhang Wang (AAP 67, 2010)
Shall we shake on it? Chinese Contemporary Art Market
(AAP 70, 2010)
Off the Page Li Xianting (AAP 71, 2010)
Scorching Sun of Tibet (AAP 72, 2011)
Portraits of Power Mao Xuhui (AAP 72, 2011)
Capitalizing on Communism (AAP 73, 2011)
A Horse Named Caveat (AAP 74, 2011)
Ai Weiwei, on the imprisonment and release
from jail (AAP 74, 2011)
Chollywood vs. Hollywood (AAP 75, 2011)
Out on a Limb Wang Keping (AAP 76, 2011)
Reasoning with Idols Wang Guangyi (AAP 77 and Skira Press, 2012)
Where I Work Ai Weiwei (AAP 83, 2013)
The Shadow of Laughter Yue Minjun (AAP 84, 2013)
Eternal Spring Ma Desheng (AAP 87, 2014)
Help Yan Pei Ming (AAP 87, 2014)
Buddha and Beer Kesang Lamdark (Rossi & Rossi, 2018)
Generation Fake: Ai Weiwei in LA (AAP, 2018)
China and the Golden Veins of Henan (Global Geneva 2019)
The Story of Chi Xiaoning and His Smuggled Camera (M+ Stories, 2020)
Covid-19: Is the Swiss government engaged in false news and not doing its job? (Global Geneva, 2020)