Andrew Garrison
Associate Professor
E-mail: agarrison@mail.utexas.edu
Office: UA9 2.112E
Phone: 512-475-6297
B.A., Communication/Political Science, Antioch College; 1974
Curriculum Vitae
Andrew Garrison is an award-winning independent filmmaker with experience in both documentary and dramatic film production. He is a current Rockefeller Fellow (National Video Resources Media Arts Fellowship), the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an AFI Independent Filmmaker Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Individual Media Artist Award, regional NEA awards, as well as juried prizes from festivals. Garrison’s current project is a feature documentary set in Houston, THIRD WARD TX.
THIRD WARD TX, is about the economic and creative redemption of a traditionally African-American neighborhood in decline, through the efforts of a group of local artists, residents and volunteers. The film will be released by PBS in 2006.
As a producer/director/editor his films have been broadcast on PBS and screened in international festivals such as Sundance, the New York Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Berlin Children’s Film Festival London, Sydney, and Locarno. The New York Times described his short film FAT MONROE as "not-to-be missed" and "a pint-sized classic." The "Atlanta Journal/Constitution gave a program of two of his films "four stars" and said they were "like diamonds in a coal-mine." These two films and the resulting trilogy, THE WILGUS STORIES, were broadcast nationwide on PBS.
Garrison worked for over 12 years with the pioneering documentary film group, Appalshop, in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. As an Appalshop filmmaker he directed his own works and served as D.P. or principal camera for other Appalshop films and video documentaries. Among programs he shot are FAST FOOD WOMEN (dir: Anne Lewis), and CHEMICAL VALLEY (dir: Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering), both of which were broadcast on "P.O.V." He also was principal photographer for ON OUR OWN LAND (dir: Anne Lewis), a duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Winner for Best Independent Broadcast Journalism.
Garrison is the founder of the East Austin Stories documentary project, an on-going collaboration between U.T. student filmmakers and the residents and businesses in communities in East Austin. You can see the work at www.EastAustinStories.org
Garrison is the Audio Area Head and a member of the Cinema Audio Society. As a mixer/recordist Garrison has credits on several FRONTLINE programs, a Democratic presidential campaign, and numerous independent projects.
