Andrea Dorfman
| Andrea Dorfman | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 29, 1968 |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film director |
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 (NFB).
She currently 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.
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.
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.
Her first feature film Parsley Days (2000), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). 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.
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