PRODUCER
WRITER
DIRECTOR
Andrew "Andy" Cohen is an independent filmmaker and journalist whose work is dedicated to effecting social change and protecting human rights.
He produced, directed or wrote several award-winning documentaries such as Dealers among Dealers (1996), Killing Kasztner (2008), Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012), The World Before Her (2012), Hooligan Sparrow (2016), Human Flow (2017), Ximei (2019) and Beijing Spring (2020) , which were shown at the FIFDH Geneva, 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.
He is currently working on three feature length documentaries that are in post production: Talking Tacheles (2021), Title Shot (2022), The Village Gate (2022).
FEATURE DOCUMENTARIES
Dealers Among Dealer (1996) writer, producer
Killing Kasztner (2008) writer, producer
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) executive producer
The World Before Her (2012) executive producer
Hooligan Sparrow (2016) executive producer
Human Flow (2017) executive producer
Ximei (2019) writer, director, producer
Beijing Spring (2020) writer, director, producer
Send Us Your Brother (2020) executive producer
Talking Tacheles (2020) writer, director, producer
Title Shot (2021) writer, producer
Village Gate (2021) writer, director, producer
Ravensbruck (2022) writer, director, producer
VIDEO JOURNALISM
(writer, director)
Li Xianting Off the Page (2010)
Yan Pei-Ming Invisible Presence (2011)
Zhan Wang My Personal Universe (2012)
Wang Guangyi Reasoning with Idols (2012)
Fang Lijun The Sting of Freedom (2012)
Liu Xiaodong I’m Almost Crazy (2013)
Kesang Lamdark Headless Disco (2013)
Yu Hong Holding Up Half the Sky (2013)
Deng Chuanbin Arrested (2019)
Qiu Anxiong Off the track (AAP 63, 2009)
Zhang Xiaogang Where I work (AAP 67, 2010)
Chinese Contemporary Art Market Shall we
shake on it? (AAP 70, 2010)
Li Xianting Off the Page (AAP 71, 2010)
Scorching Sun of Tibet (AAP 72, 2011)
Mao Xuhui Portraits of Power (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)
Wang Keping Out on a Limb (AAP 76, 2011)
Wang Guangyi Reasoning with Idols
(AAP 77, 2012)
Ai Weiwei Where I Work (AAP 83, 2013)
Yue Minjun The Shadow of Laughter
(AAP 84, 2013)
Ma Desheng Eternal Spring (AAP 87, 2014)
Kesang Lamdark Buddha and Beer
(Rossi & Rossi, 2018)
Ai Weiwei Generation Fake: Ai Weiwei in LA
(AAP, 2018)
Ximei China and the Golden Veins of Henan:
A film-maker’s view (Global Geneva, 2019)
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