American-born Brandt Andersen is an author, producer, director, and human rights activist. His first feature-length film was “The Strangers’ Case”. In 2020 Andersen wrote and directed the live-action feature short Refugee starring; Omar Sy and Jason Beghe. The film opened at the Cairo International Film Festival, was short-listed for an Academy Award, and won Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Drama Short at the French Riviera Film Festival. He has produced films such as Everest, starring Jake Gyllenhaal; Lone Survivor starring Mark Wahlberg; 2 Guns starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg; Martin Scorsese's Silence, starring Adam Driver, and American Made, starring Tom Cruise.
Throughout his life, Brandt has supported humanitarian efforts, specifically assisting refugees. In October 2019, he traveled with CanDo, a grassroots Charity, to a hospital and refugee camp in North East Syria. He later went on to raise funding to support technologies designed to reduce the impact of school bombings in the area. In 2017, Brandt took a group of filmmakers to the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan to teach filmmaking to Syrian Refugee teenagers, an initiative that later turned into a full-fledged film school. Prior to that, he traveled and supported humanitarian projects with Latter-Day Saints Charities in Africa, Greece, Turkey, Haiti, and Italy.
