Andrew Hines is a Canadian filmmaker from Nova Scotia,Victoria Ahearn, "Broken ankle didn't stop Nova Scotia director from making Lizzo's 'Tempo' video". The Globe and Mail, August 8, 2019. whose feature film debut Little Lorraine premiered in 2025.Kim Izzo, "Little Lorraine crime film wraps in Nova Scotia, Ontario". Playback, August 26, 2024.
Hines, the son of photographer Sherman Hines,Anjuli Patil, "MTV Video Music Award winner honours Nova Scotia director Andy Hines". CBC News Nova Scotia, August 31, 2015. began his career as a music video director, creating videos for artists such as Tory Lanez, Logic, Big Sean, Classified, Alicia Keys, Keith Urban, Jason Derulo, J Balvin, Lizzo, Coldplay, Matthew Good and Anderson .Paak.
His video for Big Sean's "One Man Can Change the World" was the winner of the MTV Music Video Award for Best Video with a Social Message at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. His video for Logic's "1-800-273-8255" was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Music Video at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018 ,"'Unbelievable': director Andy Hines on the reaction to his Grammy-nominated video for 1-800-273-8255". Q, January 24, 2018. and his video for Classified's "Powerless" received a Juno Award nomination for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019,"Junos 2019: the complete list of winners". CBC Music, March 16, 2019. as well as being shortlisted for the 2019 Prism Prize."Drake, Arkells, Jessie Reyez videos named among Prism Prize top 20". Q, February 21, 2019.
In 2022 he directed the video for Adam Baldwin's single "Lighthouse in Little Lorraine", which he subsequently used as proof of concept to secure studio interest in a feature film treatment of the true story that inspired the song."Nova Scotia's Andy Hines lands J Balvin for film adaptation of his own music video". CBC News Nova Scotia, August 24, 2024. Little Lorraine premiered in the Discovery program at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.John Hazelton, "Toronto film festival unveils Discovery selection with 23 world premieres". Screen Daily, July 23, 2025. It was subsequently screened at the 2025 Atlantic International Film Festival, where Hines and Baldwin won the Michael Weir Award for best screenwriting.Andrew Tracy, "Sk+te’kmujue’katik, Little Lorraine top award winners at AIFF". Playback, September 15, 2025.
Hines said he hoped to use a similar music video adaptation approach to secure financing for other film ideas.
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