Andrea Kalin

Andrea Kalin is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founder of Spark Media, a production company dedicated to socially conscious storytelling. A member of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Producers Guild of America (PGA), Kalin’s films have earned her over 100 industry accolades including a Primetime Emmy, two Gracies, a CHRIS Award, and nominations for both a Golden Globe and WGA Award. Her work has been showcased theatrically and at leading film festivals worldwide, including Hot Docs International Film Festival, Woodstock, Camden International, Human Rights Watch Film Festival and is distributed by major broadcasters and streaming platforms such as HBO, MTV, Smithsonian, PBS’s WORLD Channel, Amazon, Apple TV, Tubi and NHK. Her latest documentary, Public Defender,  premiered at Mountainfilm in Telluride, where it won the Moving Mountains Impact Award and has been commercially released by The New Yorker Documentary, Scripps News Network and WETA public television, with a nationwide public television broadcast set for Fall, 2025. The film’s impact partners include The Pulitzer Center and Interfaith America, among others.

Kalin’s debut documentary, Partners of the Heart, aired on PBS’s “American Experience,” won the Erik Barnouw Award for Best History Documentary and was named to NEH50, a list of the most culturally significant projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Driven by a passion for unearthing gripping, unexpected human stories, Kalin’s work challenges perspectives, inspires action, and sparks the imagination.