Andrew Currie - Writer/Director/Producer

A founding partner in Anagram Pictures, Andrew Currie recently directed and co-wrote the feature film FIDO. Starring Carrie Anne Moss (The Matrix, Memento), Billy Connolly (Mrs. Brown, Lemony Snickett), Dylan Baker (Happiness, Spiderman 2), and Tim Blake Nelson (O'Brother Where Art Thou, Minority Report), FIDO is a quirky, highly stylized, dark comedy co-produced by Lionsgate Films, who will also release the film theatrically in the US and Internationally, with TVA handling Canadian distribution.

Other recent credits for Currie include: directing Sleep Murder - a television movie for CTV and Buena Vista International - starring Jason Priestley and Natar Ungalaag (The Fast Runner); producing (with partner Blake Corbet) The Delicate Art of Parking (Best Canadian Film - 2003 Montreal World Film Festival), and directing Twisteeria, a half-hour comedy for YTV which garnered Currie a Gemini Award nomination.

Currie's debut feature which he co-wrote the story for and directed, was the critically acclaimed father/son drama Mile Zero. It played at over twenty film festivals around the world, winning top honours in Houston (WorldFest Platinum Award), Victoria (CityTV Award for Best First Feature), and Moondance (Best Feature Award). Mile Zero was one of ten international films selected in 2002 for Janet Maslin's prestigious Town Hall Film Series in New York.

Before moving onto features, Andrew enjoyed international success with a series of award-winning short films that played in festivals around the world and saw wide broadcast on stations including: Canal Plus - France; Channel 4 - UK, and Telepiu - Italy. Credits include Persistence of Memory, and The Sudden Walk. In 1997 Andrew attended Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre, where he made the short film, Night of The Living, which garnered an impressive array of awards from festivals around the world.

Born in England, Currie grew up in Victoria, BC. and studied Arts before starting work in the television industry as a news editor, news director and commercial editor. He moved to Vancouver where he attended the Film Program at Simon Fraser University, where Anagram partners Trent Carlson and Blake Corbet also studied, and became obsessed by the structure of film and how it works with storytelling. A diehard film buff, Currie is influenced more by European and American Independent film than by traditional Hollywood and cites Eraserhead as the one movie he's probably seen more than any other film because it just keeps getting funnier every time he watches it.

As for inspiration for his own films Currie, a father of two boys, notes: "All my films come from a fascination with human relationships, and the inevitable comedy, drama, and sometimes horror that results."

Currie has two features currently in development with Anagram; the comedy SPERM, about a compulsive liar, hypochondriac, and Walter Mitty-style daydreamer who discovers the truth behind the myth of his father's "greatness", and the actual quality of the genes he inherited, and the drama TRIPPING JACK, about a young man forced to face the return of the cancer he beat as a child, while coming to terms with the fierce love of his determined mother.