Andrew Jenks is an Emmy and Peabody nominated filmmaker, TV producer, author, and podcaster.

The New York Times notes that “Jenks takes his camera into a world that’s usually invisible and shines a light on populations that many of us would JUST AS soon forget.”

Andrew’S WORK ETHIC SOMETIMES RESULTS IN HIM ACTUALLY LIVING with those he films…

• MOVING into a nursing home in Florida FOR ONE SUMMER when he was 19 years old (HBO, Andrew Jenks, Room 335) 

• leaving college and crisscrossing Japan for nearly a year with a POPULAR pro baseball team, including its rock-star players and their American coach who had become the most famous and beloved person in Japan (ESPN, The Zen of Bobby V) 

• sleeping on the streets with the homeless in San Francisco (MTV, World of Jenks) 

• gambling with a manic world champion pro poker player in Las Vegas (MTV, World of Jenks) 

• GLOBETROTTING AROUND THE WORLD TO DOCUMENT 3 YOUNG ADULTS COMBATING hiv/aids, MOSTLY FILMING IN THE LARGEST TOWNSHIP IN KHAYELITSHA, SOUTH Africa, a SLUM in Mumbai, India, and a small COLLEGE TOWN in rural America. (Netflix/Hulu/Participant, It’s Not Over)

• filming over the course of several years at a federal prison in Missouri, where a young man was wrongfully incarcerated for a murder based on someone else's dream (Netflix/currently APPLE TV & AMAZON, dream/killer). 

Variety has noted that "Jenks and his crew keep the tradition of verite cinema going by simply capturing what happens in front of the camera". However, for stories from the past, Jenks uses his “meticulous fact-checking and innovative investigative techniques” to unearth a wide range of newfound facts, figures, and narratives previously unknown or just simply ignored.

What Really Happened with Andrew Jenks and Gangster capitalism, both created, CO-executive produced, and written by jenks, became the #1 and #2 podcasts ON Apple’s worldwide charts. episodes INCLUDED:

• how - and if - Muhammad Ali actually talked a man from jumping off a 7th floor office building.

• Years before BRITNEY Spears and her conservatorship made it into the national headlines, Jenks QUESTIONED the conservatorship and what Spears was facing.

• in federal prison, jenks has Interviewed daniel green, one of the two men convicted and incarcerated for the murder of James Jordan, Michael Jordan’s father.

• Other episodes ranged from: THE SHY MAN Princess Diana LOVED IN HER final year, a previously unknown police officer who worked the case of Jeffrey Epstein, newfound evidence in the case of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, THE VERACITY OF Winston Churchill’s “Black Dog”, and Operation Varsity Blues (the college admissions scandal).

The Guardian has noted, “you can bet if there’s something to unveil, Jenks is the person to do it.”

his work has been distributed by Netflix, HBO, ESPN, MTV, seen by millions of people around the world, and featured in publications such as the New york times, Variety, and The Toady Show.

while in high school nearly 20 years ago, hoping to show his short films in the school auditorium, Jenks asked his teacher to help him start the All American High School Film Festival, which has become the biggest high school film festival in the world.

with submissions from over 40 countries, the non-profit has given over $3 million dollars in scholarships and prizes and during its annual weekend event, over 200 short films from high school filmmakers around the world are shown at the amc theaters in times square, New York City.

The festival’s full-time executive director is andrew’s former teacher who helped him start it 20 years ago.

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