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]