Kacy Andrews

Kacy Andrews has been actively involved in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. Her diverse resume includes feature films, television series, theater, and animation. She has worked throughout the world, and was recently profiled in People Asia Magazine's 2006 People of the Year issue. Kacy spent nine years in production and project development at Los Angeles-based Hyperion Studio. This includes work as one of the Producers on Miramax's Playing By Heart (Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands and Angelina Jolie). Kacy's portfolio at Hyperion also includes the feature film Tom's Midnight Garden (Joan Plowright); BoneChillers, a children's television series for ABC (Linda Cardellini); and numerous animated projects such as FOX's Life With Louie (Louie Anderson); HBO's Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (Denzel Washington and Whoopi Goldberg); and Paramount Pictures' The Oz Kids (Jonathan Taylor Thomas). Moving from Hyperion, Kacy had a stint as Vice President of Development at Blue Focus Management where she worked on developing projects for MGM, Disney and Sony. She then dabbled in the dotcom and software arena at Creative Planet and Entertainment Partners. In 2003, her consulting work at Bigfoot Productions led to the creation of Bigfoot Entertainment and the International Academy of Film and Television. As the CEO and co-founder, she has overseen the set-up and development of the studio and film school located in Cebu, Philippines with offices and additional schools in both Hong Kong and Los Angeles. The company has since grown to more than 300 employees both foreign and local. Over the past few years, Bigfoot Entertainment has invested in several feature films, including Shanghai Kiss (Hayden Panettiere), East Broadway (Margaret Cho) and 3 Needles (Lucy Liu, Olympia Dukakis and Sandra Oh). During her tenure at Bigfoot, she has served as a Producer/Exec Producer of such feature films as; the soon to be released Deep Gold, The Curiosity of Chance, Irreversi (Estella Warren), Hui Lui, Within, Girl With No Number, and Midnight Movie. She has also produced documentaries, 9000 Needles and USS Cooper as well as reality series' Hollywood Boot Camp. These projects have been shot in such international locations as Belgium, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam, The Philippines and Los Angeles. Recently her focus has shifted to launching Bigfoot Ascendant Distribution which will be the foreign and domestic sales arm of all Bigfoot's internally produced as well as acquired product. Kacy is a recipient of the David Letterman Internship and a Cum Laude graduate of Ball State University with continuing studies at the American Film Institute. In 2000, she was awarded Ball State University's Graduate of the Last Decade and more recently was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award. Since her move to Los Angeles, where she's based, she has been actively involved with organizations such as Women in Film, Step-Up, and Big Sisters/Big Brothers of Los Angeles. She currently sits on the Board of Governors of Bigfoot Asia Pacific Foundation.