"Valley" Fade In Drama Competition - first place - 2024
“Consent” original screenplay (Short). Released 2023
“West of the New Kansas” (Short) Festival ciruit fall 2024
“Blood Apiary” original feature screenplay. FINALIST StoryPros International Screenplay Contest
“Keeper” original feature screenplay Filmmatic. QUARTERFINALIST Drama Screenplay Awards (Season 7)
“Lie-Lie” original feature screenplay. Austin Film Festival SEMIFINALIST
“Keeper” original feature screenplay. Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards SEMIFINALIST
“Linger” original feature screenplay. Oaxaca Film Fest OFFICIAL SELECTION
OPTIONS:
“Tow” optioned August 2022
“Keeper” optioned August 2022
“Lie-Lie” optioned July 2022
I intend to write compelling screenplays that bares the heart of humanity.
In 2018 Andy launched strongland.live to share his fiction and nonfiction works. In fall of 2019 Andy started the Strong Land Writers Group in Columbus, GA. Andy began hosting a screenwriters group in the fall of 2020.
Andy is a member of The Atlanta Writers Club and is the Education Director of The Columbus Writers Guild.
A long, hard, look at his high school years (filled with run-ins with the law, a couple visits to juvie, foster care, rehab, etc.) opened the door to a career in substance abuse counseling, county-level child protection, work with Native Americans, suicide prevention and restorative justice work, in both rural and urban areas.
Those work experiences, and the places that he invested himself in, have left lasting impressions of awe, sadness and wonder at the hardships and triumphs of the human experience. They have also led him to sustain a deep love for the land and people he has met along the way.
