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Biography
Andrew Richard "Andy" Capper (born February 14, 1973) is an award-winning New York-based director / journalist and executive producer at Vice Media.
Career
Having co-founded the UK division of Vice with Andrew Creighton, Capper has contributed to wide array of fields related to Vice Magazine. Since 2002 through to the present day, Capper has been Senior Director / Producer / Editor at Vice Media LLC. Capper created Vice series' such as Rule Britannia (TV series) and also co-produced two seasons of the six-part Vice.com series Fashion Week Internationale together with co-creators Charlet Duboc and William Fairman, travelling to Fashion Week in locations such as Islamabad, New York, Medellin, Phonm Penh and Lagos, Nigeria. In 2014, he created the Vice.com series' Weediquette and The Real, and was awarded an Emmy for segments he produced for Vice's show on the HBO network. In 2016 Capper was the Executive Producer and Director of the show Noisey, an eight-part series on the VICELAND TV network which featured artists such as Kendrick Lamar, Rick Ross, DJ Khaled, Big Sean, Danny Brown, Diplo, Chief Keef, Common and others. Season 2 is currently in production for release early 2017.
Capper has directed several promo videos for artists like Snoop Dogg, ASAP Rocky, Vybz Kartel, Fucked Up, Black Lips, Haleek Maul, Parquet Courts, Turbonegro, Popcaan, Beenie Man and Tifa, as well as creating and producing the Noisey.com franchises Noisey Chiraq, Noisey Jamaica and Noisey Raps. Capper also worked with Jonathan Glazer and J Spaceman of Spiritualized on an installation for The Creators Project at the Coachella Festival which centred on the Spiritualized song "Ladies & Gentleman, We Are Floating In Space". Last year he shot a tour documentary around the Brooklyn band Parquet Courts called Light Up Gold Road Trip, which will be released April 17 on Noisey.com as the first ever Noisey Films production.
Capper also contributes on a freelance basis to The Guardian, The Observer and NME, having previously been the paper's live editor.
Reincarnated
Capper's feature-length documentary Reincarnated follows the rapper Snoop Dogg's transformation into reggae performer Snoop Lion, premiering at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival with a theatrical release in April 2013. In January this year he directed two Snoop videos in Jamaica for the companion album Reincarnated: "Lighters Up" featuring Mavado and Popcaan, and "Here Comes The King" featuring Angela Hunte.
Lil Bub & Friendz
Lil Bub & Friendz premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 18, 2013 and won the Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film. The film saw Capper once again collaborating with J.Spaceman of Spiritualized and William Bennett of Cut Hands, having previously worked with them on Swansea Love Story, The Vice Guide To Liberia and Reincarnated.
Chiraq
Chiraq is an 8-part documentary for Vice's music channel Noisey on the social and cultural forces behind the rise of the Chicago rapper Chief Keef, created by Capper after trips to the city for Vice's HBO network show.
Suddenly
Suddenly is an hour-long documentary on New York artist ASAP Rocky, directed by David Laven and produced by Capper.
Atlanta
Atlanta is a new documentary series about drug trafficking and Trap music in the Atlanta area, which is scheduled for release in 2015.
Noisey
Eight hour-long films about music and geography for the VICELAND network. Season One: Compton with Kendrick Lamar, Sao Paulo with Major Lazer, Miami with Rick Ross and DJ Khaled, Jamaica with Popcaan, Chronixx and Jesse Royal, Las Vegas with Tiesto, Steve Angello and Justin Bieber, Detroit with Big Sean and Danny Brown, Chicago with Chief Keef, Lil Durk and Common, London with Giggs, Skepta and Jammer.
The franchise also featured the rapper YG interviewed by a therapist and a special report on gang violence in Chicago. Season Two will air in January 2017.
Vice Records
As a part of Vice Records, Capper has released music by Fucked Up, Black Lips, Mike Bones and Katie Stelmanis.
Publications
- Skins & Punks with Gavin Watson (Vice)
- Heavy Metal In Baghdad with Gabi Sifre (Vice)
- The World According To Vice (Canongate)
- Dos & Donts Compendium (Vice)
Filmography
In recent times Capper has produced video content throughout the Vice.com franchises, including the following long-form documentaries:
- The Vice Guide To Liberia (with Shane Smith: Webby Award Winner Best Travel & Adventure doc / People's Choice Winner).
- Rule Britannia (TV series) (2009-2013)
- Blackpool, Las Vegas Of The North (with Leo Leigh)
- Swansea Love Story (with Leo Leigh: Webby Award Official Honoree)
- Beautiful Liverpool (with Leo Leigh)
- Afghanistan In The UK (with Jason Mojica)
- Teenage Riot (with Alex Miller)
- Fraud (with William Fairman)
- Roseboy (with Jamie Lee Curtis Taete and Billie JD Porter)
- Vice News
- Vice News: Krokodil Tears (with Alison Severs and Al Brown)
- Vice News: The Vice Guide To Belfast (with Stuart Griffiths and Michael Moynihan)
- Music World: Donk (with Andy Soup)
- The Vice Guide To Sex: Mandingo! (with William Fairman)
- 2013: Lil Bub & Friendz (director)
- 2013: Reincarnated
- Noisey Chiraq (with Gregory "Beef" Jones)
- Noisey Jamaica
- Noisey Jamaica 2
- Apocalypse, Man
- 2014: SVDDXNLY
- Weediquette series on Vice.com
- The Real series on Vice.com
- Vice News: Jamaican Bud Business
- Vice News: Ebola In Town!
- Vice News: Inside Libya's Militias
- Motherboard: Island Of The Apes
- Noisey Atlanta
- 2015:
- Noisey TV series on VICELAND