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Andrea Sperling
Presented with the Wolfe Acheivement Award
by Kathy Wolfe, C.E.O of Wolfe Video
Prior to Closing Night Gala presentation of D.E.B.S.
Sunday May 2, 7:00 pm
Gusman Center For The Performing Arts
Andrea Sperling is a Los Angeles based independent producer. She has produced seventeen feature films and seven shorts. Sperling recently completed D.E.B.S., a lesbian action romantic comedy for Sony Screen Gems which recently world premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Other gay themed features include Jamie Babbit's But I'm a Cheerleader (1999, Lions Gate Films) starring Natasha Lyonne, Clea Duvall and Rupaul, four films by acclaimed indie director Gregg Araki, nowhere (1996, Fine Line), The Doom Generation (1995, Trimark), Totally F***ed Up (1993, Strand Releasing), and The Living End (1991, October Films); and one film by Christopher Munch, Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996, Artistic License).
Sperling has worked a number of times with versatile actor Christina Ricci. The dynamic duo co-produced Adam Broder and Anthony Abramsą Pumpkin (2002, American Zoetrope/ UA) executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, and Prozac Nation, (2001, Miramax Films). Sperling also produced Morgan J. Freeman's Desert Blue (1998, Goldwyn Films). Industrious Ricci, stars in all three films.
Her shorts include a number of award winning films including one by Angela Robinson D.E.B.S (2003) two by Jamie Babbit, Stuck (2001), and Sleeping Beauties (1997); Mary Kuryla's Memory Circus (1990); Jennifer Gentile's My Pretty Little Girlfriend (1996); and Britta Sjogren's a small Domain (1996). Hummer, written, directed and starring Guinevere Turner plays in our What Girls Like program on April 25th.
Sperling received a Bachelor of Arts in Film History, Theory and Criticism from the University of Santa Barbara, graduating with Honors in 1990. She has been profiled in The New York Times, The Village Voice, Art Forum, Paper Magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Detour Magazine, The Advocate, IndieWire, AIVF, Filmmaker Magazine, and on the Sundance Channel.
Sperling sits on the Board of Directors for The Professional Organization of Women in Entertainment Reaching Up (POWERUP!); and serves on the Advisory Committee for the IFP West's New Visions Program.
Sperling has been nominated twice by the Independent Feature Project West for a Spirit Award in Producing Achievement; once in 1993, where she took home the award, and again, in 1999.
We are delighted to welcome Andrea Sperling to the 6th Annual Miami Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, where she will be presented with the Wolfe Career Achievement Award, by Wolfe Video Chief Executive Officer Kathy Wolfe, prior to our Closing Night Gala presentation of D.E.B.S. on Sunday May 2nd.
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