Andrew Golden is a filmmaker, writer, and journalist living and working in New York City. Raised in the small town of Bangor, Pennsylvania, he recently completed his MFA in Screenwriting and Directing Film at Columbia University. While at Columbia, his feature screenplays Gauguin and American Zoo received departmental development grants funding travel to Kyiv and Cherkasy, Ukraine, and to the Biosphere 2 research facility in Oracle, Arizona. In 2020, American Zoo was a finalist for the Sundance Institute’s Sloan Development Grant for science-based screenplays. He is currently developing his MFA thesis screenplay Pre-existing Conditions as his first feature film.
Andrew previously worked as a video journalist for Scientific American in New York, with additional science journalism work published by NPR, The Huffington Post, and The Washington Post. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Film and Philosophy from the University of California, Riverside. While at UC Riverside, Andrew edited the feature-length documentary Active Analysis in Rehearsal: A Documentary Learning Resource, and presented an excerpt of the film with professors Root Park and Bella Merlin at the “S” Word Stanislavsky Symposium in London, UK in 2016.
One of his earliest experiences with film was starring in a home video with his twin sister when they were 3 years old — which his parents submitted to America’s Funniest Home Videos and for which they won top prize for the episode.
Andrew can be contacted at the email address here.