Andrew Mortimer

Andrew Dryden Mortimer is a screenwriter from Whitney Pier, Nova Scotia. He has spent the past 3 years working in Halifax, and the Annapolis Valley as a production assistant for film and television. While working as a PA, Andrew wrote scripts in his free time. In 2017 his television pilot "Space & Tide" was shortlisted for the NSI Totally Television Program, was the wild card winner of The Pilot Project, and in 2018 earned him a trip to Toronto to work in the 'Mary Kills People' writers room through the Screen Nova Scotia Screenwriters Internship Program. He is entering the National Screen Institute's 2019 Features First Program with his producer partner Gharrett Paon of Rebel Road Films and his original screenplay 'The Undertow'. The Undertow is a tribute to the struggles and the serenity of life on Cape Breton Island. It is a chaotic romance/coming of age story set in a rural 1976 coal mining town. Andrew is a member of the Director's Guild of Canada, the Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia, and an Alumni of the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative's FILM 5 Program.