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Andrea Sperling

{{short description|American film producer (born 1968/1969)}}

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| years_active = 1992–present

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Andrea Sperling (born c. 1968/69) is an independent film producer based in Los Angeles. The films she has produced include Totally Fucked Up, But I'm a Cheerleader, D.E.B.S. and Itty Bitty Titty Committee and the Sundance Top Prize-winning Like Crazy.

Early life and education

Sperling attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where she took classes under Gregg Araki.{{Cite news |last=Taubin |first=Amy |date=September 7, 1999 |title=Market Forces |url=http://www.villagevoice.com/film/market-forces-6419816 |newspaper=The Village Voice |location=New York City |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sf360.org/?pageid=8751 |title=Andrea Sperling, powering up |last=Faggioli |first=Claire |date=June 24, 2007 |website=sf360.org |accessdate=July 21, 2016 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813090426/http://www.sf360.org/?pageid=8751 |archivedate=August 13, 2016 }} While enrolled, she interned during the summers at Avenue Pictures.{{Cite magazine |last=Bowen |first=Peter |date=September 1996 |title=BRINGING UP INDIE |url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18749508.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910194729/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-18749508.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-09-10 |magazine=Artforum |location=New York City |via=HighBeam Research |accessdate=July 21, 2016}} She graduated in 1990 with a B.A. in Film History, Theory and Criticism.{{Cite web |url=http://www.magpictures.com/resources/presskits/nobodywalks/NOBODYWALKSfinalnotes.doc |title=NOBODY WALKS |website=Magnolia Pictures |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}

Career

Upon graduation, Sperling's former professor, Gregg Araki, asked her to work with him on The Living End. The duo would continue their partnership into Araki's next three movies — Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere — which were collective dubbed the "Teen Apocalypse Trilogy".{{Cite book |last=Hart |first=Kylo-Patrick R. |date=September 20, 2010 |title=Images for a Generation Doomed: The Films and Career of Gregg Araki |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9780739139974}} The trilogy has been characterized as "... teen alienation, hazy sexuality and aggression."{{Cite web |url=http://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-oconnell/2011/01/gregg-araki-gay-boys-aliens-and-shoegaze/ |title=The Work of Gregg Araki: Teenagers, Aliens and Shoegaze |last=O'Connell |first=Ryan |date=January 31, 2011 |website=thoughtcatalog.com |accessdate=December 17, 2014}}

Sperling has been credited with helping to launch the New Queer Cinema movement with her films dating as far back as the 1990s.{{Cite magazine |date=November 9, 2015 |title=Out100: Andrea Sperling |url=http://www.out.com/out100-2015/2015/11/09/out100-andrea-sperling |magazine=Out |accessdate=July 21, 2016}} In 2008, Sperling was introduced to her long-term producing partner, Jonathan Schwartz of Crispy Films, following the recommendation of a sales agent with Creative Artists Agency. Sperling joined Crispy Films, which was subsequently renamed Super Crispy Entertainment.{{cite magazine | last1 = Fernandez | first1 = Jay A. | last2 = Miller | first2 = Daniel | url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/producers-know-282818 | title = Producers to Know | date = January 17, 2012 | magazine = The Hollywood Reporter | accessdate = February 10, 2021}}

In 2014, Sperling branched into television, working on the Golden Globe Award-winning series Transparent. She was elevated to executive producer in 2015.{{Cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/amazons-transparent-scores-third-season-805026 |title=Amazon's 'Transparent' Scores Third Season, Creator Jill Soloway Signs Overall Deal (Exclusive) |last=Jarvey |first=Natalie |date=June 25, 2015 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |location=Los Angeles |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}

Awards and honors

She was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2014.{{Cite web |url=https://www.sundance.org/blogs/program-spotlight/meet-the-2015-2016-women-at-sundance-fellows |title=Meet the 2015-2016 Women at Sundance Fellows and Their Mentors |date=November 4, 2015 |website=Sundance Institute |accessdate=July 21, 2016}} Sperling was named as a member of the 2008 and 2015 Out100 class by Out.{{Cite web |url=http://www.out.com/out100_2008/nominees_37.asp |title=ACTRESS & PRODUCER CALPERNIA ADDAMS & ANDREA SPERLING |website=Out |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918122706/http://www.out.com/out100_2008/nominees_37.asp |archivedate=September 18, 2010 |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}

Personal life

Sperling is based in Los Angeles, California.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mglff.com/2004/andreasperling.htm |title=Andrea Sperling Presented with the Wolfe Achievement Award |last=Wolfe |first=Kathy |date=May 2, 2007 |website=MGLFF.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509235518/http://www.mglff.com/2004/andreasperling.htm |archivedate=May 9, 2007 |accessdate=July 21, 2016}} She is a lesbian and was previously married to colleague, Jamie Babbit, with whom she has two children.{{Cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/tv/221818-transparent-is-progressive-storytelling-at-its-very-best |title="Transparent" is progressive storytelling at its very best |last=Bendix |first=Trish |date=July 18, 2014 |website=AfterEllen.com |accessdate=July 21, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825215706/http://www.afterellen.com/tv/221818-transparent-is-progressive-storytelling-at-its-very-best |archive-date=August 25, 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.afterellen.com/tv/225374-natasha-lyonne-and-jamie-babbit-to-team-up-again-in-fresno |title=Natasha Lyonne and Jamie Babbit to team up again in "Fresno" |last=Piccoli |first=Dana |date=August 23, 2014 |website=AfterEllen.com |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}

Sperling has sat on the board of directors of non-profit organization and film production company POWER UP and was with the organization from the beginning.{{Cite web |url=http://powerupfilms.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=8&Itemid=33 |title=Honorary Board of Directors |website=POWER UP |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101127084439/http://powerupfilms.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=8&Itemid=33 |archivedate= November 27, 2010 |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}{{Cite web |last=Gomez |first=Enrique |date=April 4, 2007 |title=Interview with Jamie Babbit and Lisa Thrasher |url=http://www.quirkee.com/events/south-by-southwest-2007/interview-with-jamie-babbit-and-lisa-thrasher.html |website=Quirkee.com |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070902232827/http://www.quirkee.com/events/south-by-southwest-2007/interview-with-jamie-babbit-and-lisa-thrasher.html |archivedate=September 2, 2007 |accessdate=July 21, 2016}}

Filmography

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