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Born in Kirkwall in Orkney, Andrew Lanni studied Digital Film & Television at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. During his time here, he worked as a producer on The Taxidermist (2011) which was later nominated for the Best Fiction award at the 2012 British Academy Scotland New Talent Awards. The film later went not to be nominated once again for the Best Fiction accolade at the student awards ceremony run by the Royal Television Society.

In 2013, he was reunited with his fellow students John McPhail and Tyler Collins when he took up the role of producer for the short film Notes (2013). Together with McPhail, the pair pulled in a lot of favour from friends and family in order to gain equipment, locations and crew to make the film. Notes (2013) became the first part of a trilogy of short comedy films with V for Visa (2013) and Doug & Steve's Big Holy Adventure completing the series. The films were positively received by critics with V for Visa being selected to have its North American premiere at Robert De Niro's TriBeCa Film Centre in New York as part of the Bootleg Film Festival where it later went on to win the Best film accolade at the festival.

During the filming of the comedy trilogy, Lanni agreed to produce a short 3 minute film called Just Say Hi (2013) to enter into the 2013 edition of the Virgin Media Shorts Competition. The film made it through to the top 13 out of a short list of 250 films. Lanni and the production team were presented with the awards at a ceremony in London where they picked up 2 out of the 3 awards of the evening which included £5,000 in film funding with mentoring from the British Film Institute and a voucher for £5,000 to spend on Nikon Equipment. The film was later picked up by the Très Court International Film Festival where it was screened in over 100 cites in 23 countries.

In 2014, Lanni reunited with McPhail once again to produce the feature film Where Do We Go from Here? (2015). The film, which raised £10,630 on Indegogo, was filmed in just 16 days. In 2015, the film entered the festival circuit and was screened in late October at the Sydney Indie Film Festival where it was nominated for 7 awards. The film picked up three awards at the festival for Best Score, Best Supporting Actress and Best Film. Later that year, Lanni was hired as the second assistant director for the film Con Men (2015) which was written and directed by R. Paul Wilson.

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

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Andrew Lanni

Bootleg Film Festival Edinburgh

Sydney Indie Film Festival

Blow-Up Chicago International Arthouse Film Fest

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