Andrew Haigh is an award-winning British writer-director, known for tender and emotionally revealing works. His most recent film, the critically acclaimed All of Us Strangers, starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy and Jamie Bell, received six BAFTA nominations, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay for Haigh. All of Us Strangers was also the recipient of four Gotham and three Independent Spirit Awards nominations. Haigh’s previous feature films include A24’s Lean on Pete (2017), IFC’s Sundance Selects’ 45 Years (2015), for which Charlotte Rampling earned an Academy Award nomination, and his breakout hit, Weekend, which screened at PIFF in 2011.
For television, Haigh served as an executive producer as well as the lead writer-director on the HBO show ‘Looking’ (2014-2016), starring Jonathan Groff and Murray Bartlett. He also wrote and directed all five episodes of the 2012 limited series ‘The North Water’ for BBC & AMC. Next, he will adapt and direct a film based on Walter Isaacson’s acclaimed biography about Leonardo Da Vinci for Universal.
Andrew Haigh will be in conversation with filmmaker and icon John Waters.