Andrea Dorfman is a Halifax based filmmaker, artist, writer, animator, illustrator, bicyclist, seed grower, star gazer and people watcher. She is endlessly curious about all sorts of things but the only thing she knows for sure is that she knows almost nothing at all. She has directed numerous music videos and shorts and the feature films Parsley Days (2000), Love That Boy (2003),  Heartbeat (2014) and Spinster (2020), often collaborating with the brilliant writer, Jennifer Deyell. At some point along the way Dorfman taught herself animation and made the Emmy nominated,  Flawed (2009) and Big Mouth (2012) with The National Film Board of Canada - as well as the feature doc, The Girls of Meru (2018) which follows the human rights work of Canadian legal justice non-profit, The Equality Effect. In 2017, she adapted and illustrated, Flawed, which was published as a YA graphic memoir for Firefly Books
        Dorfman’s short live action/animation collaboration with uber-talented poet-musician, Tanya Davis, How to Be Alone (2010), has garnered almost 10 million YouTube hits and was adapted into a book published by  HarperCollins, illustrated by Dorfman. Their follow-up, the NFB animation, How to Be at Home, made during the first Covid lock down, is a deeply soothing comfort for pandemical times. 
       Social media-avoidant (but curious), Dorfman experimented with Instagram, posting Tiny Weekly Memoirs throughout 2020. "It was an interesting art project", she mused, "but ultimately social media is not for me". These days, she is is in production with her short animation, Hairy Legs, produced by the National Film Board of Canada. She lives with her partner, Dave, sometimes her step kids, Max and Sydney, their dog, Sophie and cats, Archer and Frankie. 
Filmography Highlights
Annecy Animation Film Festival - 2021 Official Selection “How to Be at Home”
Vimeo Staff Pick - 2021 “How to Be at Home”
Canada’s Top Ten Shorts - 2020 “How to Be at Home”
Miami International Film Festival - 2021 Official Selection “Spinster”
Whistler Film Festival - 2020 Official Selection “Spinster”
United Nations Association Film Festival - 2018 Official Selection “The Girls of Meru”
Paris Human Rights Film Festival - 2018 Official Selection “The Girls of Meru” 
Amnesty International Film Festival - 2018 Official Selection “The Girls of Meru”
Toronto International Film Festival - 2015 Official Selection “Heartbeat”
Atlantic Film Festival - 2015 Award Winner “Heartbeat”
International Film Festival of India - 2015 Official Selection “Heartbeat” 
Santa Barbara International Film Festival - 2015 Official Selection “Heartbeat”
Sprockets: TIFF’s Children’s International Film Festival - 2013 Official Selection “Big Mouth”
L.A. Shorts Film Festival - 2013 Official Selection “Big Mouth”
Yorkton Film Festival - 2013 Official Selection “Big Mouth”
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival - 2013 Official Selection “Big Mouth”
Emmy™  Nomination - 2011 “Flawed” 
Hotdocs - 2011 Official Selection “Flawed”
Silverdocs - 2011 Official Selection “Flawed”
Dok Leipzig - 2011 Official Selection “Flawed”
Telluride Film Festival - 2011 Official Selection “Flawed”
Montreal International Doc Festival - 2011 Official Selection "Flawed"​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

NYC Short Film Fest - 2011 Award Winner Official Selection  “Flawed”
Ottawa Animation Festival - 2011 Official Selection “Flawed”
Ottawa Animation Festival - 2010 Award Winner “The Equality Effect”
Sundance Film Channel - 2010 Official Selection “Thoughts on My Bike”
Worldwide Short Film Festival - 2009 Official Selection “How to Be Alone”
International Film Festival - 2009 Official Selection “How to Be Alone”
Atlantic Film Festival - 2007 Special Mention “Lost and Found”
Toronto International Film Festival - 2005 Award Winner “There’s A Flower in My Pedal”
Vancouver Int. Film Festival - 2005 Official Selection  “There’s A Flower in My Pedal”
Atlantic Film Festival -  2005 Award Winner “There’s A Flower in My Pedal”
Sundance Channel - 2005 Official Selection “There’s A Flower in My Pedal”
Karlovy Vary Film Festival - 2004 Official Selection “Love that Boy”
Bangkok Int Film Festival - 2004 Official Selection “Love that Boy”
Moscow Faces of Love Film Festival - 2004 Official Selection “Love that Boy”
Budapest Film Festival. - 2004 Official Selection “Love that Boy”
Vancouver Int Film Festival - 2003 Official Selection “Love that Boy”
Canada’s Top Ten Features - 2001 “Parsley Days
Palm Springs Int. Film Festival - 2001 Official Selection “Parsley Days”
Seattle Int. Film Festival - 2001 Official Selection “Parsley Days”
Toronto Int Film Festival - 2000 Official Selection “Parsley Days”
Sudbury Film Festival - 2000 Award Winner “Parsley Days”
Atlantic Film Festival - 2000 Award Winner “Parsley Days”
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