About Me
I am a San Francisco-based filmmaker, screenwriter, writer, producer, photographer, creative director, designer, and community advocate.
Through my work, I excavate, examine, and interrogate the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves—across the intersections of identity, addiction and recovery, joy, grief, trauma, attachment, chosen family, social justice, community memory, and the reparative possibilities of art. Through film, writing, photography, and design, I am interested in how people make meaning from their experiences, build connection with one another, and begin again after things fall apart.
I am the founder and director of Liberty Lane Films, an independent film production company developing narrative, documentary, nonprofit, podcast, and community-centered projects, and the founder and creative director of Liberty Lane Digital, a creative agency specializing in branding, design, digital experiences, and integrated communications. Working professionally in film as J. Andrew, I write, direct, and produce films and screenplays, including the feature film Angels Everywhere, the feature documentary Meet Me at the Club: The Castro Country Club Story and the award-winning short films Unbreaking and Here For Now.
My broader career spans visual storytelling, branding and marketing, advertising, digital media, photography, design, art direction, production design, film production, research, communications, and organizational leadership. I have worked with artists, nonprofit organizations, community institutions, and commercial clients locally, nationally, and internationally.
This website brings all of these different threads together, documenting the breadth of my multidisciplinary creative career and the work that continues to emerge from it.
CURRENT WORKWHAT I’M CURRENTLY WORKING ON
My practice spans documentary and narrative filmmaking, screenwriting, producing, literary and editorial work, photography, research, and community-centered creative projects.
I am directing, writing, executive producing, and editing Meet Me at the Club: The Castro Country Club Story, a feature documentary about one of the nation’s oldest LGBTQIA+ sober community centers. Built from more than 60 interviews and over 180 hours of footage recorded across six states, the film documents more than four decades of recovery, service, queer history, and chosen family.
My producing work includes the feature film Angels Everywhere. My current film and screenwriting projects also include the feature screenplay Pretty Broken People and the satirical science-fiction short Claude Ostium.
My literary work includes the editorial project Relate on Purpose, the memoir The Simple Life of Johnny Mayhem, a poetry collection, and ongoing research into queer cinematic forms. Through Liberty Lane Films, I also continue to create independent, commissioned, nonprofit, and community-centered, mission-aligned storytelling.
COMMUNITY & ADVOCACY WORKMy COMMUNITY-CENTERED PRACTICE
Alongside my creative work, I organize public programs, benefits, and communications projects supporting the LGBTQIA+ community, artists, elders, people in recovery, and asylum seekers.
Recent projects include Performance with Purpose: Right to Remain, a drag cabaret that raised more than $12,000 for the LGBT Asylum Project; Aging with Pride, a continuing series centering LGBTQIA+ elders, recovery, history, liberation, and resistance; and Safety First, Sexy Second, a public-service collaboration with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to meet a community challenge with humor.
I have also served on the boards of California public-benefit nonprofit organizations.
Across this work, I use storytelling, performance, design, and public conversation to preserve community memory, strengthen connections, and direct attention and resources toward people and experiences too often overlooked.
CREATIVE DIRECTIONSince 1999, I’ve used Branding & design to Solve problems for everyone from Fortune 50 companies to small businesses and nonprofits across the globe.
Good design has to be curious enough to explore, disciplined enough to solve a problem, and human enough to make a real connection that inspires action.
Over the years, I have developed and directed brands, campaigns, identities, websites, photography, and visual communications for Fortune 50 companies, small businesses, nonprofits, and artists. My practice moves comfortably between the strategic and the tactile: clarifying a message, shaping an idea, building a visual system, and carrying it through to the details that make it feel considered and alive.
The strongest work is collaborative. It is built through trust, clear thinking, honest conversation, and a shared investment in getting the work right. Whether I am brought in to help define a brand, lead creative direction, or solve a particular problem, the strength of the products we design and develop are built upon the strength of the team. The work we do together makes us stronger.
Learn more at LibertyLaneFilms.com/digital.
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