Andrew Zappin

History

Andrew Zappin has written, directed, and produced commercials, films, digital content, and music videos both independently and for companies such as Yankee Peddler TV, Nike, Inc., and Winkler Films. His work has screened in competition at international festivals including the Nashville Film Festival, AFI-Tisch West Screening Series, and the Tribeca Film Festival. He is a co-founder of Night Kitchen Films alongside tech industry venture capitalist, Seth Neiman, and actor DJ Qualls. In his spare time, Zappin tours internationally as a founding member of the Los Angeles power-pop punk group Maniac.

Profile

Movies

The Company Man

Writer

A short film about work and its power to define how we see ourselves. It was an official selection of several international film festivals including the Nashville Film Festival, AFI-Tisch West Screening Series, and the Tribeca Film Festival where it was nominated for the Special Jury Prize.

The Company Man

Director

Utter Bliss: Lost in America with the Fat White Family

Director

UK punk band, Fat White Family, oozed out of the London DIY scene in 2013 with their self-released album 'Champagne Holocaust'. The group quickly became the face of the UK's subversive political and musical underground, gaining notoriety amongst fans and the music press as being the last of a dying breed: a punk rock outfit so loud, vulgar, and iconoclastic that they couldn’t be ignored. This run n' gun documentary follows the controversial group on tour in the U.S. It is an intimate portrait of a band struggling with the music business, drug addiction, poverty, and each other, as they rocket across the great American hinterland. The film features appearances by Fat White Family admirers Lady Gaga, Sean Lennon, Mark Ronson, Cynthia ‘Plaster Caster’ Albritton, and the long, strange American highway.