Andy Capper

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Andy Capper
Born (1973-02-14) 14 February 1973 (age 51)
NationalityBritish
OccupationDirector / Journalist
TitlePresident, Happy Now Film

Andrew Richard Capper (born 14 February 1973) is a British US-based director, journalist and former editor and executive producer at Vice Media. In 2018, he founded Happy Now Film.[1]

Career

Capper's career in journalism started at age 17, reporting on local newspapers in the North West of

Danny Brown, Diplo, Chief Keef, Common and others.[7]

Capper has directed several promo videos for artists like

Coachella Festival which centered on the Spiritualized song "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space".[9] In 2014, he shot a tour documentary around the Brooklyn band Parquet Courts called Light Up Gold Road Trip, which was released 17 April on Noisey.com as the first Noisey Films production.[10]

Capper was a regular contributor to The Guardian and The Observer.[11][12]

Capper left Vice in late 2017. His last production for the company, "Hollywood Love Story" was a series of cautionary tales about young people and the dark side of modern media. It aired in 2018 and featured Paris Hilton.[13]

In Summer 2022, Capper was appointed COO North America of the APX Film Fund which works to fund projects of narrative, documentary and other IPs.[14]

People Like You

In 2022, a new feature documentary called People Like You,[15] directed by Capper, was released on the Deeper Movies streaming service. The film is about America’s addiction epidemic and its troubled rehab industry through the eyes of a group of mothers.[16][17]

The Choe Show

In 2019, Capper worked with the artist David Choe to develop and produce The Choe Show, a limited TV series based around art, recovery and childhood trauma. The show premiered on FX Network June 2021.[18]

Reincarnated

Capper's feature-length documentary

Reincarnated follows the rapper Snoop Dogg's transformation into reggae performer Snoop Lion, premiering at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival with a theatrical release in April 2013. In January this year he directed two Snoop videos in Jamaica for the companion album Reincarnated: "Lighters Up" featuring Mavado and Popcaan, and "Here Comes The King" featuring Angela Hunte.[8]

Lil Bub & Friendz

Tribeca Film Festival on 18 April 2013 and won the Tribeca Online Festival Best Feature Film.[19][20][21]

VICE

Capper produced six segments in the Emmy Award-winning Season Two of the VICE show on HBO, working with hosts Thomas Morton, David Choe and Hamilton Morris.[5]

Chiraq

Chiraq is an 8-part documentary for Vice's music channel Noisey on the social and cultural forces behind the rise of the Chicago rapper Chief Keef, created by Capper after trips to the city for VICE on the HBO network.[5]

Suddenly

Suddenly is an hour-long documentary on New York artist ASAP Rocky, directed by David Laven and produced by Capper. It premiered at SXSW.[citation needed]

Atlanta

Atlanta is a ten part documentary series about drug trafficking and

Trap music in the Atlanta area, which was released in 2015. The project was popular and controversial, particularly when a court in Georgia used the series as evidence against the Atlanta rap group Migos in a case where the artists were racially profiled and arrested by the authorities after a show on a university campus.[22]

Noisey

Eight hour-long films about music and geography for the VICELAND network. Season One: Compton with

The franchise also featured the rapper YG interviewed by a therapist and a special report on gang violence in Chicago. Season Two will air in January 2017.

Season Two: Six hour long films; Bay Area with

Wizkid and Femi Kuti
.

Season Two won the 2017

Realscreen Award for Outstanding Achievement Non-Fiction & Culture.[23]

Vice Records

As a part of Vice Records, Capper has released music by Fucked Up, Black Lips, Mike Bones and Katie Stelmanis.[5]

Publications

Filmography

  • The Vice Guide To Liberia (with
    Webby Award
    Winner Best Travel & Adventure doc / People's Choice Winner).
  • Rule Britannia (TV series) (2009-2013)
    • Blackpool, Las Vegas Of The North (with Leo Leigh)
    • Swansea Love Story (with Leo Leigh:
      Webby Award
      Official Honoree)
    • Beautiful Liverpool (with Leo Leigh)
    • Afghanistan In The UK (with Jason Mojica)
    • Roseboy (with Jamie Lee Curtis Taete and Billie JD Porter)
  • Vice News
    • Vice News: Krokodil Tears (with Alison Severs and Al Brown)
    • Vice News: The Vice Guide To Belfast (with Stuart Griffiths and Michael Moynihan)
  • Music World: Donk (with Andy Soup)
  • The Vice Guide To Sex: Mandingo! (with William Fairman)
  • 2013: Lil Bub & Friendz (director)
  • 2013: Reincarnated
    • Noisey Chiraq (with Gregory "Beef" Jones)
    • Noisey Jamaica
    • Noisey Jamaica 2
    • Apocalypse, Man
  • 2014: SVDDXNLY
    • Weediquette series on Vice.com
    • The Real series on Vice.com
    • Vice News: Jamaican Bud Business
    • Vice News: Ebola In Town!
    • Vice News: Inside Libya's Militias
    • Motherboard: Island Of The Apes
    • Noisey Atlanta
  • 2015 to 2016
    • Noisey TV series on
      VICELAND
    • Season One
    • "Bompton"
    • "São Paulo"
    • "Miami"
    • "Chicago"
    • "Jamaica"
    • "Las Vegas"
    • "London"
  • 2017
    • Noisey TV series on
      VICELAND
    • Winner of the Realscreen 2017 Award for Outstanding Achievement Non-Fiction & Culture
    • Season Two
    • "Bay Area"
    • "Nashville"
    • "Paris"
    • "Seoul"
    • "Atlanta"
    • Lagos"
    • "Lil B: Believe In Earth". A short film about the Bay Area artist Lil B.
    • "The Therapist" TV show on
      VICELAND
      : Musicians receive therapy from Dr Siri Sat Nam Singh
  • 2018
  • Hollywood Love Story: An eight part series for
    VICELAND
    with Paris Hilton.
  • 2021
    • The Choe Show on FX with David Choe.
  • 2022
    • People Like You: america’s addiction epidemic and its troubled rehab industry through the eyes of a group of mothers

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Andy Capper | HuffPost". www.huffpost.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  3. ^ "The Bad-Boy Brand". The New Yorker. 2013-04-01. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  4. ^ "Andy Capper". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  5. ^ a b c d e "Andy Capper". www.vice.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  6. ^ "Andy Capper - Rotten Tomatoes". www.rottentomatoes.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  7. ^ White, Peter (2017-12-15). "Vice Media's Andy Capper Leaves Youth-Focused Company". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  8. ^
    ISSN 0040-781X
    . Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  9. ^ "The Creator's Project". Archived from the original on 2012-01-06.
  10. ^ "On Time with Parquet Courts | Broadcast". On Time with Parquet Courts | Broadcast. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  11. ^ Capper, Andy (July 23, 2008). "www.theguardian.com/profile/andycapper". The Guardian. London.
  12. ^ Capper, Andy (March 16, 2008). "www.theguardian.com/music/2008/mar/16/features.musicmonthly17". The Guardian. London.
  13. ^ Spangler, Todd (2017-12-15). "Disney Will Get More Vice After Acquiring 21st Century Fox's $70 Million Stake". Variety. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  14. ^ Yossman, K. J. (2022-08-22). "Film Fund APX Group Appoints Andy Capper as Chief Operating Officer (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  15. ^ Capper, Andy (2022-10-20), People Like You (Documentary), Happy Now Film, Malibu Films, Vivera Cares, retrieved 2022-12-10
  16. ^ "Documentary "People Like You" PremierEs on Streaming - INDIEWRAP". 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  17. ^ The Deeper Movies Channel People Like You The Deeper Movies Channel, retrieved 2022-12-10
  18. ^ The Choe Show (TV Series 2021– ) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-07-03
  19. ^ Makarechi, Kia (2013-03-18). "'Lil Bub & Friendz' Trailer: From Meme To The Movies (VIDEO)". Huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2013-04-08.
  20. ^ "Lil Bub & Friendz | 2013 Tribeca Film Festival". Tribecafilm.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2013-04-25.
  21. ^ The Editors (2013-04-25). "Here Are Your TFF 2013 Award Winners | Tribeca". Tribecafilm.com. Archived from the original on 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2013-04-29. {{cite web}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  22. ^ "REDEF - Andy Capper Archive". redef.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  23. ^ "Realscreen Award – 2017 – Non-fiction – Arts & Culture – Noisey – VICELAND - VICE". www.vicemediagroup.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  24. ^ Skins & Punks. ASIN 0955801524.
  25. ^ Heavy Metal In Baghdad. ASIN 1416595406.
  26. ^ "The World According Vice". Amazon UK.
  27. ^ Dos & Don'ts Compendium. ASIN 1847679706.

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