Talent Guide

Andrew Droz Palermo

  • Discipline:Director, Producer
  • Program Year:Documentary Lab 2013

Bio

Andrew Droz Palermo began his career with the music video for White Rabbits Percussion Gun and went on to write and direct the short film A Face Fixed. He is the director of photography for a number of high-profile projects including You’re Next, a 2011 Toronto International Film Festival selection purchased by Lionsgate; V/H/S, a 2012 Sundance selection purchased by Magnolia; and two short films which premiered at 2012 SXSW: The Gathering Squall, which Filmmaker Magazine called intense and visually striking, and Man & Gun.

Palermo has just wrapped two additional projects as cinematographer, which debuted at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival: A Teacher, a narrative feature by Hannah Fidell, and Kat Candlers short Black Metal. His narrative feature-length directorial debut One & Two is supported by the Sundance Institute Producer’s Lab and is represented by William Morris Endeavor. Rich Hill is his first documentary, a proud collaboration with his cousin, Tracy Droz Tragos.

Current Project

Rich Hill

Logline

Rich Hill intimately chronicles the turbulent lives of four impoverished boys living in a dying Midwestern town, witnessing their struggles up-close as they yearn to find self-worth and to imagine a brighter future.