Andrew Lanni

Andrew Lanni is a Scottish Film producer from Kirkwall in Orkney. He has also worked on various films as an assistant director.

Life and career

Andrew Lanni studied Digital Film & Television at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. During his time here, he worked as a producer on the film The Taxidermist which was later nominated for the Best Fiction accolade at the 2012 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards.^[1] It also was nominated again for the Best Fiction accolade at the student awards ceremony run by the Royal Television Society.^[2]

In 2013, he was reunited with his fellow students John McPhail and Tyler Collins for the short film Notes in which Lanni was the producer. Together with McPhail, the pair pulled in a lot of favour from friends and family in order to gain equipment, locations and crew to make the film.^[3] Notes was the first part of a trilogy of short comedy films with V for Visa and Doug & Steve's Big Holy Adventure completing the series in the same year. The films were positively received by critics with V for Visa being selected to have its North American premiere at Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Film Centre in New York as part of the Bootleg Film Festival.^[4] The film went on to win the Best film accolade at the festival.

During the filming of the comedy trilogy, Lanni agreed to produce a short 3 minute film called Just Say Hi to enter into the 2013 edition of the Virgin Media Shorts Competition. The film, written and directed by McPhail, tells the story of a blossoming romance between a boy and a girl who meet every morning at a bus stop. The film made it through to the top 13 out of a short list of 250 films. Lanni and the production team were presented with the awards at a ceremony in London where they picked up 2 out of the 3 awards of the evening which included £5,000 in film funding with mentoring from the British Film Institute and a voucher for £5,000 to spend on Nikon Equipment.^[5] The film was later picked up by the Très Court International Film Festival where it was screened in over 100 cites in 23 countries.^[6]

In 2014, Lanni reunited with McPhail once again to produce the feature film Where Do We Go From Here?. The film, which raised £10,630 on Indegogo, was filmed in just 16 days.^[7] In 2015, the film entered the festival circuit and was screened in late October at the Sydney Indie Film Festival where it was nominated for 7 awards. The film picked up three awards at the festival for Best Score, Best Supporting Actress and Best Film.^[8] In the same year, Lanni was hired as the second assistant director for the film Con Men which was written and directed by R. Paul Wilson.

Filmography

Awards

References

External links

• Andrew Lanni at the Internet Movie Database
• Andrew Lanni BFI Profile