Andrea Sisson

Andrea Sisson is a Fulbright fellowship recipient and film director.

Andrea Sisson
Sisson in January 2016
Alma mater	Bard College
Occupation	Film director
Spouse	Pete Ohs ​ (divorced)​

Personal life

Andrea Sisson's hometown is Cleves, Ohio.^[1] In^[update] 2013, Sisson was married to fellow filmmaker Pete Ohs^[2]—whom she met at a suburban Cincinnati water park—and living in Los Angeles.^[3] In summer 2021, Sisson was pursuing a Master of Fine Arts from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.^[4] On September 15, 2021, Ohs filed for divorce from Sisson.^[5]

Career

After receiving a Fulbright fellowship, Sisson traveled to Iceland to direct and narrate her experimental^[3] 70-minute documentary film about mental illness, I Send You This Place.^[2] The work was a 2012 official selection at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and Reykjavík International Film Festival, and was commercially released in summer 2013.^[3]

In 2013, Sisson and Ohs were jointly named one of Filmmaker's "25 New Faces of Independent Film".^[3] That same year, they were working on Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, a "microbudget narrative project";^[3] at the 2017 LA Film Festival, it won the U.S. Fiction Cinematography Award.^[6]