Andrew Cohn


Andrew Cohn is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and screenwriter originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. His feature film, The Last Shift, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars two-time Academy Award nominee Richard Jenkins and is executive produced by Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne. Prior to his work in fiction, Cohn was best known for his vérité style documentary films.
In 2018, Cohn directed Warriors of Liberty City, a 6-part documentary series for Starz, which the L.A. Times called "one of the best reasons to turn on a television this fall." His film, Night School, premiered at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, was supported by a MacArthur grant and was released by Oscilloscope Laboratories. He is the director of the documentary Kid Danny, part of ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 series; his concert documentary Danny Brown: Live at The Majestic was released through Apple Music. Cohn's debut film, Medora, executive produced by Steve Buscemi and Stanley Tucci, aired on the acclaimed PBS series Independent Lens, and won an Emmy Award.
Cohn began his career working for author and This American Life contributor Davy Rothbart at Found Magazine. After graduating college, he found work as a screenwriter in Los Angeles and later produced the off-Broadway play, Found: People Find Stuff. Now it’s a Show. Cohn’s first non-fiction short, Dynamic Tom, was featured as part of McSweeney's Wholphin collection and his second short film, Chile Road, played in over 20 U.S. film festivals. His most recent documentary short, Destination Park, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and has over a half million streams on The Atlantic.

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