23 Facts About Andrea Kalin

Andrea Kalin is an American independent filmmaker, writer, producer, and director.

Andrea Kalin is the principal and founder of Spark Media and founder and executive director of Stone Soup Productions, a 501 non-profit foundation.

Andrea Kalin attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from American University with a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice and corrections.

Andrea Kalin is a documentary filmmaker who focuses on social, mental health and women's health issues.

Andrea Kalin uses storytelling and marketing strategies to promote social change and raise awareness to societal problems, such as woman's health issues and suicide.

Andrea Kalin started as a newsreel researcher for Ken Burns on his film The Congress.

In 2021, Andrea Kalin began production of a documentary film entitled Public Defender The film is about a DC left-leaning public defender named Heather Shaner who represents over a dozen January 6 defendants with a commitment to rehabilitating her clients through education.

Andrea Kalin's intent was not to get her clients off the hook for sedition but to understand how an average American could become so radicalized.

Andrea Kalin's film, Scattering CJ, the story of CJ Twomey, a seemingly happy Air Force recruit who violently ended his own life at age 20, whose passing plunged his family into unrelenting grief and guilt.

In 2017, Andrea Kalin directed, produced and wrote First Lady of the Revolution, a feature-length documentary about Henrietta Boggs, the American woman from Birmingham, Alabama who was married to Jose Figueres Ferrer during the years of the Costa Rican Civil War and served as the First Lady of Costa Rica from 1948 to 1949.

In 2014, Andrea Kalin released the film Red Lines, a feature-length documentary, depicting the ongoing civil war in Syria and the efforts of activists Mouaz Moustafa and Razan Shalab-al-Sham to raise international support for the revolution and to promote democracy in the Middle East.

Andrea Kalin was an Executive Consultant on Something The Lord Made, a made-for-television biographical drama film which received three Prime Time Emmy awards from nine nominations.

Andrea Kalin served as the Executive Consultant for the "Something the Lord Made" film.

Andrea Kalin's picture appeared on the cover of that issue.

In 2006, Andrea Kalin went on to direct and produce The Pact, a feature-length documentary based on a New York Times bestseller book, The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream.

In 2007, Andrea Kalin produced, co-directed and co-wrote Prince Among Slaves, with Unity Productions Foundation.

In 2009, Andrea Kalin, directed, co-produced, and co-wrote a National Endowment for the Humanities and Smithsonian Networks funded documentary about the Federal Writers' Project titled "Soul of a People: Writing America's Story", which includes interviews with notable project alumni Studs Terkel, Stetson Kennedy, Richard Ford, as well as American historians Douglas Brinkley and David Bradley.

In 2009, Andrea Kalin produced and co-directed a documentary on the Smithsonian Folkways record label called Worlds of Sound: The Ballad Of Folkways, which premiered on Smithsonian Networks on October 25,2009.

In 2014, Andrea Kalin co-directed and produced a film on the Syrian conflict entitled Red Lines.

In 2017, Andrea Kalin had two films in production: The first is Scattering CJ, the story of CJ Twomey, a seemingly happy Air Force recruit who violently ended his own life at age 20, whose passing plunged his family into unrelenting grief and guilt.

In 2005, Andrea Kalin produced and directed Too Brief a Child, a film about how eighty-two million girls around the globe will be married annually before they leave adolescence causing them to lose their childhoods.

Andrea Kalin produced a number of commissioned films for non-profits, NGOs and development banks including the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, UNICEF, UNFPA, Refugees International, PCRM CSPI, the World Bank, the Urban Institute, Southeast Asian Refugees Association, and the NFPLA.

Andrea Kalin established and operated a news bureau in the member bank country that was hosting the bank's annual meeting in order to provide live coverage of the meeting.