After earning a Double Honours degree in English and History at the University of Toronto, Andrew Burrows-Trotman (ABT for short) moved to Los Angeles to attend the American Film Institute’s Screenwriting MFA programme.
After graduation, Andrew was hired by independent producer, Miles Maker, to write a feature screenplay based on the real story of the Valley Manor Retirement Home about a cook (Maurice Jones) and a janitor (Miguel Alvarez) who stayed without pay to care for abandoned elderly residents when their assisted living home was shut down. The feature script entitled, IF WE LEFT was shortlisted for the prestigious San Francisco Film Society’s Hearst Grant.
Upon returning to Canada, ABT was hired by Conquering Lion Productions co-founders Damon D'Oliveira and Clemente Virgo to rewrite a pilot script for Lawrence Hill’s award winning novel THE ILLEGAL which was set up at CBC to be their follow up mini-series to the smash hit Book of Negroes. More work soon followed when Andrew was hired by Insight Productions and Canadian basketball legend Steve Nash’ Cntrl_Media to write the pilot for their grassroots basketball drama HARDWOOD for CBC. Riding this wave of momentum, ABT was hired as a story editor on the inaugural season of the Shaftesbury produced period detective drama
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