ANDREA JANAKAS
Director
TALenT DeVeLoPMenT ProGrAM:
Fast Track
CUrrenT ProJeCT:
God & other Strangers (Narrative Feature)
LOGLINE
After a bad breakup, Maggie decides to put her life on hold and return home to the freezing Midwest, but
when faced with the changes in her newly religious mother and her childhood friends, she realizes that she
must confront her past and fi nally...grow up.
BIO
A native Bostonian and graduate of the Journalism program at Emerson College, Andrea Janakas earned
her MFA in Directing at The American Film Institute. Her short fi lms cross genres and examine the human
condition and political preoccupations of various eras. Her meditations on small town life and the need
for social change are evident. A recipient of an AFI scholarship, she was awarded the 2005 Fuji Student
Filmmaker Award for her script, Gypsies, Tramps, & Thieves. The fi lm premiered at the Seattle International
Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival in 2006, and stars Annie Quinn (Criminal Minds, House) and
Amanda Seyfried (Mean Girls, Nine Lives). Gypsies received the Jury Prize at the Palm Springs
International Shorts Festival, and Indiewire named the fi lm one of the Top Ten Outstanding Shorts at Outfest.
Andrea’s directing credits include David’s Walls, Average Joe, Karma Sutra, SKAL, and a 30 second spot in
support of Same Sex Marriage Rights for GLAAD. She also directed the well-received multi-media play “Save”
for Theater of Note in Hollywood. In the Spring of 2009, Janakas was commissioned to write a script for the
American Visions Film Initiative with ITVS.
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