Andrew Rossi


Andrew Rossi is an American filmmaker, known for directing documentaries such as .

Career

Rossi is the founder of , a company that produces film and television.
In 2011, Rossi directed ', which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for two News & Documentary Emmys and a 2011 Critics' Choice Award for Best Documentary. The film was co-distributed by Magnolia Pictures and Participant Media.
His work has appeared on Netflix, the History Channel, Sundance Channel, MTV Networks and HBO, including ', which premiered on HBO in 2008.
In 2013, Rossi was one of the first directors to be commissioned by CNN Films to develop feature-length documentaries for theatrical and television distribution by CNN, including his next film about the transformation of higher education.
The film, Ivory Tower, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was theatrically distributed in 2014 by Samuel Goldwyn Films and Participant Media. After airing on CNN, the film was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy for outstanding business and economic reporting.
In 2015, Rossi produced ', an HBO documentary about the case of the Cannibal Cop that examines the First Amendment implications of policing communication in fantasy forums online. This was his first collaboration with director Erin Lee Carr.
Rossi's next film, The First Monday in May, focused on the annual Met Gala and the Met's Costume Institute. The movie premiered as the opening night film at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.
In 2017, Rossi produced Carr's follow up to Thought Crimes for HBO, Mommy Dead and Dearest. Premiering at the SXSW Film Festival, the film tells the shocking story of Gypsy Rose Blancharde, who killed her mother after a lifetime of abuse as a victim of Dee Dee's Munchausen by proxy syndrome. They went on to produce Carr's two part film ' with the same team at Abstract Productions, premiering on HBO in 2019.
The next film Rossi directed was Bronx Gothic, a collaboration with writer and performer Okwui Okpokwasili that captures her critically acclaimed one-woman show, Bronx Gothic.
Writing in the New Yorker, Hilton Als called Okpowasili's Bronx Gothic "A tour de force on the order of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, the author's seminal text on black girlhood and power."
In 2018, Rossi produced Kate Novack's The Gospel According to Andre, a biopic about legendary fashion editor Andre Leon Talley. He also executive produced the Netflix series 7 Days Out, directing episodes on the scientists and engineers behind NASA's Cassini mission, a final haute couture show from designer Karl Lagerfeld and the Westminster Dog Show. In 2018, Rossi was admitted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In 2020 Rossi directed HBO's investigating the origins of conspiracies like pizzagate and the spread of false news from sites like 4Chan to the mainstream media. Rossi is also directing and executive producing a Netflix series that was announced by Ryan Murphy as covering the life of Andy Warhol.

Filmography

Rossi grew up in New York and was a first generation college student, graduating from Yale College and Harvard Law School.