Andrew Napier was born and raised in Wisconsin and attended the

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. In 2009, after working on Quentin Tarantino's ''

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'' in Berlin, Germany, he moved to Los Angeles. Andrew was a producer of the 2013 Academy Award®- winning short film ''

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'', and later edited its feature adaptation ''

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'' (SXSW 2014 Audience Award Winner). His screenplay for ''Dogtooth'', a remake of the Academy Award®-nominated Greek foreign film, is in development at Mandalay Pictures. Andrew directed the feature documentary '' Mad As Hell'' (Hot Docs 2014 Conscious Media Award Winner), which follows Cenk Uygur, whose online news show ''

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'' has amassed over two billion views on YouTube. He also directed the narrative short ''Grandma's Not A Toaster'' (Tribeca 2013) and the documentary ''Mary and Bill'' (Wisconsin Film Festival 2011 Best Documentary, and nominated at the International Film Festival of Wales). Andrew produced and edited ''The Past is a Grotesque Animal'' (2014), a documentary about the band "of Montreal," released by Oscilloscope Laboratories, and "Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play." Napier co-produced the romantic comedy '' Lust For Love'' (2014), starring Fran Kranz and Dichen Lachman. He served as an executive producer for the documentary ''The Culture High'', and the dark comedies ''The Lord of Catan'' starring Amy Acker, and "Limbo" starring H. Jon Benjamin.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Napier, Andrew Living people Filmmakers from Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni American film producers American film directors American male screenwriters American television directors Year of birth missing (living people)