Andrea Dorfman

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andrea Dorfman
Occupation	Film Director
Date Of Birth	Oct 29, 1968(1968-10-29)
Age	56
Birthplace	Toronto
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Capricorn

Andrea Dorfman Biography

Andrea Dorfman is one of the most popular and richest Film Director who was born on October 29, 1968 in Toronto, Canada. Andrea Dorfman was born in Toronto on October 29, 1968. She fell in love with filmmaking at 12 years old, when her father gave her a camera. She graduated from McGill University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

Her first feature film Parsley Days (2000), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film is a comedy about a young woman seeking an abortion after accidentally conceiving a child with her boyfriend. The main character, Kate, has been dating Ollie since high school but finds herself unhappy with the relationship. The film suggests she may have had a brief affair that led to the pregnancy. Kate tries to terminate the pregnancy by eating a diet filled with Parsley. In the end, Kate and Ollie break up. The filming was done over the course of eleven days on a budget of $65,000 and was based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dorfman found local Halifax actors and musicians for her crew, cast, and soundtrack. Dorfman worked as the writer, producer, director and Photographer of the film, using a hand-held camera. The film premiered without a distributor, so Dorfman delayed releasing the budget of the film. The film received mixed reviews. Eye magazine said “well- executed, but slightly over-earnest.” The Globe and Mail called it “endlessly charming.” Finally, the film landed her a distribution deal with Toronto-based Mongrel Media after a sold-out screening at the Atlantic Film Festival and a screening at the New York Independent Film Project.

In 2005 she directed the documentary Sluts (2005), which focused on women discussing the feeling of being labeled as so. She also produced the short film There’s a Flower in my Pedal that year, which was a runner up for best short at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2005.

Dorfman created Art in 2008, a short animation film to Tanya Davis’ song Art Dorfman also filmed Lost and Found (2008), which focused on local Halifax artist and writer Jane Kansas and her collection of knowledge about Harper Lee, who is best known for writing the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She finished it in time for the International Documentary Challenge.

Dorfman’s first major film, Swerve (1998), tells the story of a group of friends who embark on a road trip which winds up in an uncomfortable lesbian love triangle. That same year, she made a docudrama about a nine-year-old girl suffering from separation anxiety, called Nine (1998). These two films won her the Most Promising New Director Award at the 1998 Atlantic Film Festival.

Andrea Dorfman Net Worth

Andrea Dorfman is one of the richest Film Director from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrea Dorfman 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Andrea Dorfman (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She directed the Emmy Award films Flawed (2010) and Big Mouth (2012). Dorfman is one of the four co-creators of Blowhard. She mainly creates short and feature films but also works on mini- documentaries for the Equality Effect, a human rights organization. She is currently working on The Playground in collaboration with Jennifer Deyell. She is also working on an interactive website about Fogo Island, Newfoundland in collaboration with the National Film Board.

She lives in Halifax with her boyfriend Dave Hayden, his children Max and Sydney, and their cat. She has been creating experimental and dramatic short, as well as feature films since 1995. Dorfman occasionally teaches classes at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.

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. The film was described as charming despite the subject matter.

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In 2012 she continued her worked with The Art of Equality (2012). She created a mini documentary showcasing the work that Kenyan lawyers are doing to take the Kenyan Government to task for not protecting young girls from rape. That year she also released Big Mouth (2012), an animated film that was done in 2D puppet stop motion. It was produced and distributed by the National Film Board of Canada.

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Andrea Ranked on the list of most popular Film Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Andrea Dorfman celebrates birthday on October 29 of every year.

In 2014, Dorfman returned to feature film making with Heartbeat, a film about a young woman struggling to overcome her fears of becoming a musician. The film starred musician Tanya Davis and premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in the Contemporary World Cinema section. It also screened at the Atlantic Film Festival.