Andrew Friend(I)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Producer
Andrew Friend is an Emmy(TM) nominated videographer and lighting technician. He's worked in public television for over a decade. While a staffer at WYCC-TV 20 (2002-2011), he shot hundreds of programs, ranging from studio talk shows like The Professors to complex, Emmy(TM)-winning documentaries like Curators of Culture and Chicago Sinfonietta-The Sounds of Diversity. He was the principal videographer for the multiple-award-winning film Immigrant Nation! The Battle For the Dream. He is a producer for Chicago grass-roots video organization Labor Beat. Friend's own documentary film Workers' Republic garnered the John Michaels Human Rights Film Award at the 2010 Big Muddy Film Festival. He loves "painting with light," slow-motion and time lapse photography, and creating an emotionally compelling invisible story arc in his documentary work.