Quick Facts
Biography
Andrea Nix Fine is an American documentary film director whose film Inocente won the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2013.. She directs her films with her husband, Sean Fine. The Fines were also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2007 for War/Dance, a story about the power of music to heal and transform the lives of children living in Uganda’s war zone, and their 2013 HBO documentary Life According to Sam was honored with a Peabody and Emmy award. Nix is a 1991 graduate of Colby College.
Life and Career
Nix discovered her interest in film when a college professor suggested making a documentary in place of a written term paper. After her first day of shooting, she realized that filmmaking was what she wanted to pursue in life. She sought out numerous jobs after college where she could learn more about filmmaking, and went on to National Geographic in Washington, D.C., where she met her husband, Sean Fine. Nix went on to direct films around the world, notably in Naples, Costa Rica, and the Arctic Circle. She has stated that she loves that "making documentaries opens a rare and privileged door into the lives of others."
Filmography
- War/Dance (2007)
- Lindsey Vonn: In the Moment (2011)
- Inocente (2012)
- Life According to Sam (2013)