Andrea Dorfman

Andrea Dorfman (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Film career

Dorfman's first major film is Swerve (1998), a film about friends on a road trip.[1] Her feature film Parsley Days (2000), is a comedy about a young woman seeking an abortion after accidentally conceiving a child with her boyfriend, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Her second feature Love that Boy featured Nadia Litz as a sexually immature type-A university student who develops a close relationship with her teenage neighbour after failing to find a boyfriend. The film also featured Ellen Page in a small role. It premiered at the 2003 Atlantic Film Festival.

In 2009 Dorfman used a grant from BravoFACT to create an animated short film based on a poem by Tanya Davis titled How to be Alone. The film received airplay in 2009 but in 2010, after Dorfman posted the piece on YouTube it went viral, gaining over a million views in a few months and gained accolades from Roger Ebert and The Atlantic.[2]

Dorfman continued to experiment with animation with Flawed, a 2010 short animated documentary combining stop-motion animation and hand-painted images. Flawed was produced in Halifax by Annette Clarke for the National Film Board of Canada.[3]

In 2014 Dorfman returned to feature film making with Heartbeat, a film about a young woman struggling to overcome her fears to become a musician. The film starred musician Tanya Davis and premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema section.[4]

Filmography

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References

  1. ↑ Melnyk, George; Austin-Smith, Brenda (2010). The gendered screen : Canadian women filmmakers. p. 26. ISBN 9781554582716. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Owens, Simon. "How Andrea Dorfman learned to be alone and earned herself a million views on YouTube". Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  3. ↑ Cooke, Stephen (21 July 2012). "Halifax filmmaker Dorfman nabs Emmy nomination". Halifax Chronicle-Herald. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  4. ↑ "TIFF Adds 'Clouds of Sils Maria' and 'Two Days, One Night,' Reveals 5 More Lineups". Indiewire. August 12, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2014.
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