Andrew Hines is a Canadian filmmaker from Nova Scotia, [1] whose feature film debut Little Lorraine premiered in 2025. [2]
Hines, the son of photographer Sherman Hines, [3] began his career as a music video director, creating videos for artists such as Tory Lanez, Logic, Big Sean, Classified, Alicia Keys, Keith Urban, Jason Derulo, J Balvin, Lizzo, Coldplay, Matthew Good and Anderson .Paak.
His video for Big Sean's "One Man Can Change the World" was the winner of the MTV Music Video Award for Best Video with a Social Message at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards. [3] [4] His video for Logic's "1-800-273-8255" was a Grammy Award nominee for Best Music Video at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards in 2018 , [5] and his video for Classified's "Powerless" received a Juno Award nomination for Video of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2019, [6] as well as being shortlisted for the 2019 Prism Prize. [7]
In 2022 he directed the video for Adam Baldwin's single "Lighthouse in Little Lorraine", which he subsequently used as proof of concept to secure studio interest in a feature film treatment of the true story that inspired the song. [8] [9] Little Lorraine premiered in the Discovery program at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival. [10] It was subsequently screened at the 2025 Atlantic International Film Festival, where Hines and Baldwin won the Michael Weir Award for best screenwriting. [11]
Hines said he hoped to use a similar music video adaptation approach to secure financing for other film ideas. [9]