1. Andrew Jenks was born on March 5,1986 and is an American filmmaker.
28 Facts About Andrew Jenks
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Andrew Jenks's father is Bruce Jenks, Assistant Secretary General for the United Nations.
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Andrew Jenks's mother is Nancy Piper Jenks, a family nurse practitioner who is site director in internal medicine at Hudson River HealthCare in Peekskill, NY.
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Andrew Jenks attended New York University Tisch School of the Arts before dropping out after his sophomore year.
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Andrew Jenks, Room 335 is an example of a participatory documentary.
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At the International Documentary Film Festival at Amsterdam, Andrew Jenks was widely acclaimed as one of the next great American filmmakers, and compared to filmmaker Woody Allen.
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In January 2010, MTV signed Andrew Jenks to do a documentary-series titled World of Andrew Jenks.
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Season 2 of "World of Andrew Jenks" expanded to hour long episodes and continued to be a ratings hit.
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Andrew Jenks was the face MTV's 2012 election coverage, both producing and hosting.
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Andrew Jenks interviewed or asked questions to nearly all of the candidates, including Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
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Andrew Jenks left the show after 3 years because of a new film about Ryan Ferguson.
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Andrew Jenks is the creator of It's About a Girl, a magic realism YouTube web series premiered July 9,2013.
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Andrew Jenks plays a man who pursues the girl of his dreams, played by Taryn Southern.
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Andrew Jenks later advocated for the release of Kalvin Michael Smith who was released after 20 years in prison.
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Andrew Jenks has teamed up with DKMS and DoSomething to promote teens and college students to join the bone marrow donor registry.
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Andrew Jenks will be participating in college speaking tours where he will try to raise awareness and involvement.
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Andrew Jenks did a PSA for Do Something with a five-year-old leukemia patient about the importance of "getting swabbed".
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Andrew Jenks takes viewers on a journey across India, South Africa and the United States to experience the epidemic first hand.
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In 2015, CNN Films released "All American Family", a short film Andrew Jenks' company produced and he directed.
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In 2016, Andrew Jenks co-created and executive produced the MTV Series, "Unlocking the Truth".
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Andrew Jenks is a natural leader, a guy with zero self-pity for what he has been put through and instead has a unique instinct to wake up every morning and help others.
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In 2015, Andrew Jenks sold a spec script to ABC Studios, titled "Sam".
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Andrew Jenks sold and developed a half hour comedy titled "The Motivational Speaker" to HBO in 2016.
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In 2019, Andrew Jenks began hosting the podcast Gangster Capitalism, the first C13Originals podcast produced by Cadence13.
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In October 2017, Andrew Jenks debuted as writer and narrator of the documentary podcast What Really Happened from Seven Bucks Productions, with executive producers Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia.
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In 2019, The New York Post's Page Six reported Andrew was dating Barbara P Bush, the daughter of President George W Bush.
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Andrew Jenks said it was one of the "bigger regrets of my career".
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Andrew Jenks later met with Danielle Shea, who was arrested for claiming there was a bomb, to offer support.