ANDREW MEYER has over 30 years experience as a film producer, executive and educator. He served as President of Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss’ A&M Films, Robert Redford’s Wildwood Productions, and Norman Lear’s Act III Productions. As an educator he was a member of the Faculty at the prestigious Master of Professional Writing Program (MPW) at the University of Southern California, and is currently a Professor in the School of Film and Digital Media at the Savannah College of Art and Design.
Of the many films he has produced, The Breakfast Club and Fried Green Tomatoes have each grossed over 100 million dollars. Fried Green Tomatoes was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Some of Mr. Meyer’s other films include the Milagro Bean field War (directed by Robert Redford, starring Christopher Walken and Sonia Braga), Better off Dead (directed by Steve Holland, starring John Cusack), Bring on the Night (directed by Michael Apted, starring Sting), Breaking In (directed by Bill Forsythe, starring Burt Reynolds), Promised Land (directed by Michael Hoffman, starring Meg Ryan and Keiffer Sutherland), One Crazy Summer (directed by Steve Holland and starring Demi Moore and John Cusack), Pyrates (directed by Noah Stern, starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgewick) and Birdy (directed by Alan Parker, starring Matthew Modine and Nicholas Cage). Birdy was selected as the recipient of the Grand Prix Special Jury Prize at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.
Mr. Meyer began his career in the early seventies at A&M Records promoting records and tours for the label. In 1977 he was named the International Director of Publicity for the company. In 1981 he convinced the owners, Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, to start a separate film division, A&M Films. Mr. Meyer was named President of A&M films and the first picture produced was The Breakfast Club, recently named by
Entertainment Weekly as the “Number One High School film” of all time.
In the mid – eighties Mr. Meyer was named President of Wildwood Productions, Robert Redford’s film production Company. With Redford, he oversaw the production of the Milagro Bean field War and Promised Land.
In the late eighties, Mr. Meyer was hired by television producer Norman Lear to start a new feature film production company, Act III Productions; a division of the parent company, Act III Communications. Mr. Meyer spent the next several years producing pictures at Act III, the most notable being Fried Green Tomatoes, shot in Juliette, GA.
In the nineties, Mr. Meyer moved with his family to the Northwest. He continued his producing deal with Warner Bros., while at the same time exploring several new entrepreneurial opportunities. He bought a microbrewery, The Public House, and turned it into one of the most profitable tourist restaurants in the Western Washington area. While living in Port Townsend, WA. He founded the critically acclaimed Port Townsend Film Conference, which brought artists and executives from Hollywood to discuss their work, and to show their films.
In 2002 Mr. Meyer returned to Los Angeles to join the Faculty of the prestigious Master of Professional Writing Program (MPW) at USC to teach screenwriting.
In 2004, Mr. Meyer joined the faculty at the Savannah College of Art and Design as a Professor in the School of Film and Digital Media.
In 2006 he served as the Executive Producer on the feature film, Baby Blues starring Colleen Porch (Transformers) and Ridge Campini (Walk the Line), filmed in Savannah, GA.
In 2007, Mr. Meyer formed Springboard Films, a feature film production company in Savannah with partners Mike Kistler and Jason Burr. Springboard is currently developing and producing a slate of pictures.
Mr. Meyer is the author of “Dancing on the Seats”, a step-by-step guide to college concert promotion, published by Billboard Publications.
Mr. Meyer is a graduate of Bucknell University, and has returned to the university to teach film and screenwriting as an Artist in Residence.
Contact:
Email: andy@springboardfilms.net
