About
Andrea Conte is a writer, researcher, filmmaker and media artist. His artistic practice uses state archives and public records obtained through freedom of information as a documentary means to illustrate the carceral state.
His work has been published by Film Quarterly, CBC, TV Ontario, the Washington Post, the Toronto Star and several museum installations. In March 2022, Andrea’s international comparative study of the U.S. and Canadian FOIA systems resulted in the article Administrative Sabotage published on the cover of Briarpatch Magazine.
Andrea has held fellowships with the ANIDOX: LAB for animated documentary in Denmark, the UnionDocs Carceral Screens and the Abolitionist Imagination CoLAB in New York, the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund for Film and Media in Baltimore, and the Double Exposure Investigative Journalism Fellowship in Washington DC. He was recently awarded the Gumshoe Group Award for Public Records Research and the National Film Board of Canada’s Talent Lab award at RIDM, Montreal.