Andy Hines (director)

Andrew Hines is a Canadian filmmaker from Nova Scotia,[1] whose feature film debut Little Lorraine is slated to premiere in 2025.[2]

Hines, the son of photographer Sherman Hines,[3] 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.[3] 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 ,[4] and his video for Classified's "Powerless" received a Juno Award nomination for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019,[5] as well as being shortlisted for the 2019 Prism Prize.[6]

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.[7] Little Lorraine will premiere in the Discovery program at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival.[8]

References

  1. ^ Victoria Ahearn, "Broken ankle didn't stop Nova Scotia director from making Lizzo's 'Tempo' video". The Globe and Mail, August 8, 2019.
  2. ^ Kim Izzo, "Little Lorraine crime film wraps in Nova Scotia, Ontario". Playback, August 26, 2024.
  3. ^ a b Anjuli Patil, "MTV Video Music Award winner honours Nova Scotia director Andy Hines". CBC News Nova Scotia, August 31, 2015.
  4. ^ "'Unbelievable': director Andy Hines on the reaction to his Grammy-nominated video for 1-800-273-8255". Q, January 24, 2018.
  5. ^ "Junos 2019: the complete list of winners". CBC Music, March 16, 2019.
  6. ^ "Drake, Arkells, Jessie Reyez videos named among Prism Prize top 20". Q, February 21, 2019.
  7. ^ "Nova Scotia's Andy Hines lands J Balvin for film adaptation of his own music video". CBC News Nova Scotia, August 24, 2024.
  8. ^ John Hazelton, "Toronto film festival unveils Discovery selection with 23 world premieres". Screen Daily, July 23, 2025.
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