Andrea Behring (Writer/Director/Producer/Editor) who goes by Andi, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Canyon High School in Canyon Country, California as their “Female Athlete of the Year” in 2006. Andi then graduated from Sacramento State in 2011, with a double bachelors degree in both Film Production and Digital Media. She was also a team captain of their Division I track and field team, in which she broke the school record in the indoor shot put, and was also an Academic and NSCA All-American. She then moved to Atlanta after graduating and immediately started working on any set where she could gain knowledge and experience, ultimately ending up in location managing. She has since become the locations department head manager on the long running CW television show, The Vampire Diaries, which is now in it’s final season. Andi has also worked as a key assistant location manager on the feature films Let’s Be Cops, Revelation, and Triple 9.
Andi’s senior thesis film in college and directorial debut – a documentary short about women’s professional tackle football entitled “The Sirens Call” – has had great success in the festival circuit. It has been featured in the All Sports Film Festival in Los Angeles, in which it won third place. It’s also been featured in the NextGen Festival in Sacramento, the Atlanta Film Festival, the Atlanta Underground, the Honolulu Film Awards to which it won the Silver Lei Award, as well as several other festivals throughout the country. She also wrote and directed a small short film entitled “The Beginning” which was shot in Atlanta in 2013. “The Beginning” was featured in the Y’allywood Film Festival (ATL), Goa Short Film Festival (India), The South Dakota Film Festival, and the Live International Online Short Film Festival, among several others.
Andi wrote the screenplay for “Baggage” in early 2014, and in an effort to fundraise for production, the script was entered into screenwriting competitions across the country. It has been featured most recently in the Houston Comedy Film Festival, Las Vegas Screenplay Competition, Nashville Film Festival, Milledgeville Film Festival, Canada Independent Film Festival (where it won second place for short narrative films), the APM Short Screenplay Competition, the London Film Awards and the 2016 Artists Alliance Short Screenplay Competition. Once she had enough fundraising, she started her own production company in January of 2016, and And D Productions, Inc. was born – also known as &D Productions. The new production company completed filming on it’s first official project “Baggage” in May of 2016 in New York City.