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Andy Motz
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7 titles
Andy Motz is an award winning filmmaker, editor, and educator. Andy works within and blends together narrative, documentary, and experimental formats to explore pressing issues including HIV awareness, queer identity, and masculinity. His films have been screened at festivals around the world including Sidewalk Film Festival, Cinema Diverse: Palm Springs LGBTQ Festival, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Festival, Global Peace Festival, and New Haven International Film Festival.
Known for
NRAmong Sorrows and Songs follows Mark as he delivers HIV medication to various clients who are all facing obstacles of their own revealing the realities and intersecting struggles of living with HIV in contemporary society.
Among Sorrows and Songs
2018
NRIn a single morning a middle aged evangelical couple must come to terms with themselves, each other, and God when it discovered through tragic circumstances that the husband is a closeted gay man and has been leading a double life.
Whiter Shade of Pale
2014
NRThe natural world has been a source of solace for many queer men throuought their lives. It also has played a significant part in queer male history as a key location for cruising. In both of these examples queer men’s place in nature is often transitory and ephemeral. Our stories and presence are gone as nature continues with barely an imprint we were even there. I Wish There Was a Guy Term for I Love You preserves these hidden queer histories and draws attention to the often overlooked importance of nature in queer life.
I Wish There Was a Guy Term for I Love You
2022
NRIn a world of pundits and politicians seeking to “reclaim manhood,” a young queer filmmaker journeys to discover non-toxic masculinity across class, race, and gender in America today, leading him to confront his own religious upbringing, pastor father, and what he was taught it means to be a man.
Masc
2025
NRIn March 2020, Los Angeles goes into lockdown. Filmmaker Andy Motz turns to the life and poetry of Rilke, discovering unexpected strength and the transcendent power of art to guide us through uncertain times.
The Sky Remains
2020
NRA cross-country reflection on the familiar route that so many queer people traverse, from rural to urban, from unsafe to safe, and from storm to shelter in search of liberation.
An Approaching World
2021
Behind the camera
NRAmong Sorrows and Songs follows Mark as he delivers HIV medication to various clients who are all facing obstacles of their own revealing the realities and intersecting struggles of living with HIV in contemporary society.
Among Sorrows and Songs
2018
NRIn a single morning a middle aged evangelical couple must come to terms with themselves, each other, and God when it discovered through tragic circumstances that the husband is a closeted gay man and has been leading a double life.
Whiter Shade of Pale
2014
NRThe natural world has been a source of solace for many queer men throuought their lives. It also has played a significant part in queer male history as a key location for cruising. In both of these examples queer men’s place in nature is often transitory and ephemeral. Our stories and presence are gone as nature continues with barely an imprint we were even there. I Wish There Was a Guy Term for I Love You preserves these hidden queer histories and draws attention to the often overlooked importance of nature in queer life.
I Wish There Was a Guy Term for I Love You
2022
NRIn a world of pundits and politicians seeking to “reclaim manhood,” a young queer filmmaker journeys to discover non-toxic masculinity across class, race, and gender in America today, leading him to confront his own religious upbringing, pastor father, and what he was taught it means to be a man.
Masc
2025
NRIn a world of pundits and politicians seeking to “reclaim manhood,” a young queer filmmaker journeys to discover non-toxic masculinity across class, race, and gender in America today, leading him to confront his own religious upbringing, pastor father, and what he was taught it means to be a man.
Masc
2025
NRIn March 2020, Los Angeles goes into lockdown. Filmmaker Andy Motz turns to the life and poetry of Rilke, discovering unexpected strength and the transcendent power of art to guide us through uncertain times.
The Sky Remains
2020
NRA cross-country reflection on the familiar route that so many queer people traverse, from rural to urban, from unsafe to safe, and from storm to shelter in search of liberation.
An Approaching World
2021
