Andrew Silver is an American

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

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and producer.

Biography

He earned 2 degrees at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, and his doctorate in organizational psychology from

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

. Silver is a co-author of "A Film Director's Approach to Managing Creativity," a chapter in Breakthrough Thinking, published by the Harvard Business School Press. He is a research affiliate at MIT, where he leads a seminar. His film career began with Kurt Vonnegut's "Next Door" which won a prize and played on Masterpiece Theater. His current film series is called "May It Happen For You" and has the award winning Radio Cape Cod, Second Wind, and Surprise Engagement, and documentaries about leadership and early childhood education. His course at MIT IAP explores leadership, team building, managing creativity.

Filmography

Selected Films * ''Exploring Leadership'' (2023) * ''Second Wind/Radio Cape Cod'' (2020) - Producer, director *
Profiles in Aspiration
' (2018)Profiles In Aspiration
website. * ''Surprise Engagement'' (2015) - Producer, director * '' Radio Cape Cod'' (2008) - Producer, director * ''Return'' (1985) - from Some Other Place. The Right Place by Donald Harington. Producer, Director * ''Prophetic Voices'' (1984) - Producer - Director * ''Harry Callahan, A Need to See and Express'' (1982) * ''The Murderer'' (1976) - Producer - Director - adapted from the story by Ray Bradbury * '' Next Door'' (1975) - Producer - Director - adapted from the story by Kurt Vonnegut

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Silver, Andrew 1942 births Living people American documentary film directors Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Brandeis University faculty Harvard Business School alumni English-language film directors