Films by Filmmaker

Andrew Garrison

Garrison began making independent films when he co-founded a political media production and distribution group in Dayton, OH with a group of friends. At that time he also began freelancing as a D.P. and as a sound recordist. He later worked at Appalshop, the groundbreaking documentary group in the Eastern Kentucky coalfields where he shot for other filmmakers and made several of his own films including Portraits & Dreams, a documentary about the work of teacher photographer Wendy Ewald and a group of mountain children; and Fat Monroe, the first of a triptych of short narrative films, The Wilgus Stories, adapted from the stories of Gurney Norman. Garrison's work has fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation through Renew Media. He lives and works in Austin teaching production at the University of Texas. Garrison is a member of the Cinema Audio Society.