Michael Andres

As a child filmmaker Michael Andres started in the arts through dancea protege of jazz legend Gus Giordano As a teen he took 1stplace at UC Berkeley for his Dramatic Interpretation of the play Andersonville Trials He also took 4thplace in California and 15th in the nation for his interpretation of the play Equus At UCLA he studied British Literature where he became fluent in French and Italian and graduated cum laude at age 21 After college he interned for Hollywood legend Robert The Idolmaker Marcucci as a Chancellor Entertainment story analyst for sequels to Witchboard and Drugstore Cowboy Upon Marcuccis retirement Andres returned to the Bay Area where he directed Academic Advantage Home Tutoring of Saratoga for 12 years Back home Andres returned to dance directing the largest dance studio in the South Bay The Branham Dance Center for three years He concurrently began teaching film and literature for the county of Santa Clara and the San José Unified School District through which he has mentored young filmmakers for USC Chapman Lions Gate and Disney for almost 30 years Andres still writes produces directs and edits film os his own for PBS Amazon Prime AppleTv and TUBI His screenplays have been translated into Dutch French Spanish Italian Polish Czech Russian Kazakh Turkish Mandarin Indonesian and Hebrew