Aerie Productions is the personal production entity of filmmaker Andrew Wahlquist. "Aerie" is a term meaning a nest or stronghold built on a cliff or other high place.

A native of Southern California, Andrew caught the filmmaking bug in high school, where he borrowed any video camera in sight to create a slew of short videos, fiction and non. He studied mass communications at Biola University, where he developed his talents toward writing and directing films, while also becoming the resident technical guru. Among his college accomplishments were the first DV feature film created by a student at Biola, the film noir The Face in the Frame, several short films including the Biola's voted best drama of 2000, Totality, and the 1999/2000 university-sponsored film, Robbie Mullins which won the Robert Rodriguez Award of Excellence at the 2003 Hollywood DV Film Festival and was in features competition at the 2004 Newport Beach Film Festival.

After college, Andrew worked for several years in the A-list of Hollywood production companies, including internships at Mark Canton’s The Canton Company (Get Carter, The Red Planet), Harold Ramis’s Ocean Pictures (Bedazzled), and then as an assistant at Mike Ovitz’s AMG, Mike Medavoy’s Phoenix Pictures (Basic, Holes), and independent production company Mandate Pictures (Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle, The Grudge, Stranger than Fiction).

As a writer/director, Andrew has quietly been working on several screenplays, including The Association which made him a quarter-finalist in the prestigious Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship. He is currently seeking to raise funds to produce it as an independent film. Also interested in assisting his fellow alumni colleagues, Andrew has served as a co-producer and technical consultant on several spec commercials, a music video for Barenaked Ladies, and the featue film Growing Out. He brings his expertise in digital video production and desktop post production to create high quality projects on a low budget.

Andrew currently works at the Los Angeles Times as their Producer of External Multimedia, producing commercials that promote the paper. Previously he served as the Multimedia Director of the First Baptist Church of Downey, as well as a digital colorist for Local Hero Post.

He lives with his wife Lana Joy and son Peer in Downey, California.

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