Andrea Sperling

Andrea Sperling (born c. 1968/69) is an American independent film producer based in Los Angeles. The films she has produced include Totally Fucked Up, But I'm a Cheerleader, D.E.B.S. and Itty Bitty Titty Committee and the Sundance Top Prize-winning Like Crazy.

Early life and education Sperling attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where she took classes under Gregg Araki. While enrolled, she interned during the summers at Avenue Pictures. She graduated in 1990 with a B.A. in Film History, Theory and Criticism.

Career Upon graduation, Sperling's former professor, Gregg Araki, asked her to work with him on The Living End. The trilogy has been characterized as "... teen alienation, hazy sexuality and aggression."

Sperling has been credited with helping to launch the New Queer Cinema movement with her films dating as far back as the 1990s. In 2008, Sperling was introduced to her long-term producing partner, Jonathan Schwartz of Crispy Films, following the recommendation of a sales agent with Creative Artists Agency. Sperling joined Crispy Films, which was subsequently renamed Super Crispy Entertainment.

In 2014, Sperling branched into television, working on the Golden Globe Award-winning series Transparent.

Awards and honors She was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2014. Sperling was named as a member of the 2008 and 2015 Out100 class by Out.

Personal life Sperling is based in Los Angeles, California. She is a lesbian and was previously married to colleague, Jamie Babbit, with whom she has two children.

Sperling has sat on the board of directors of non-profit organization and film production company POWER UP and was with the organization from the beginning.

Filmography

1993: Totally Fucked Up 1993: Terminal USA 1995: The Doom Generation 1996: A Small Domain (short) 1996: Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day 1997: Fame Whore 1997: Nowhere 1998: Freak Weather 1998: Desert Blue 1999: Sleeping Beauties (short) 1999: But I'm a Cheerleader 2001: Stuck (short) 2002: Pumpkin 2002: Scumrock 2003: D.E.B.S. (short) 2003: Hummer (short) 2004: D.E.B.S. 2004: A Memoir to My Former Self (short) 2005: Starcrossed 2005: Harsh Times 2005: The Quiet 2007: If I Had Known I Was a Genius 2007: Itty Bitty Titty Committee 2008: Adventures of Power 2010: Sympathy for Delicious 2010: Kaboom 2011: Like Crazy 2012: Breaking the Girls 2012: Smashed 2012: Nobody Walks 2013: Breathe In 2014: Imperial Dreams 2014: All the Wilderness 2015: Bleeding Heart 2017: Professor Marston & The Wonder Women