Andrew Baird

Andrew Baird is a Honors graduate from The National Film School of Ireland where he majored in both Art Direction / Graphic Design and Film Direction.Influenced by brothers, Ridley and Tony Scott , at only 24 Andrew set up the production company, Asylum, with his brother, John. They spent the next several years making numerous commercials, short films and music videos including Up the Country, a special short film commission for The Irish Film Board and The Kiss of Life , an official selection of the prestigious Clermont Ferrand Film Festival in France.After a very successful run with Asylum, Baird moved to Eastern Europe ( Budapest and Bucharest) for 2 years to continue to direct international commercials and music videos as well as developing a feature length film project. Once the project was ready to present he moved to Los Angeles in 2006.In LA he continued to direct and also design hundreds of high end commercials and music videos for BMW, Ke$ha, Ash, Avenged Sevenfold, Korn, Toyota, Flo Ride, David Guetta, Versace, Bono, Cold War Kids, X Japan, Levi’s to name a few.Baird got considerable attention for writing and directing the infamous long-form music film for The Weekend: Kiss Land ; the title song from Abel’s debut album from XO / Republic / Universal.ICM sent him the script for his debut feature, the Ne-noir , Zone 414 after the writer; Bryan Edward Hill (Titans, Ash vs Evil Dead) saw the director’s cut of Kiss Land.Baird cast Guy Pearce in the lead and shot the picture in Europe in early 2020. Matilda Lutz (Revenge) and Travis Fimmel ( Vikings , Raised by Wolves) rounded out the cast. Zone 414 made it’s debut on Netflix on New Years Day 2022 in the US and sat on the Top 10 for 3 weeks. Universal Pictures released the picture internationally.One Way, a gritty, modern day crime thriller was presented to Andrew by his management team as a follow up. Baird cast Colson Baker (Machine Gun Kelly), Kevin Bacon, Storm Reid ( Euphoria ) Drea De Matteo and a second collaboration with Travis Fimmel. It is being released theatrically in the US on September 2, 2022.