About

Andria Wilson Mirza is the Director of ReFrame, the screen industry's Los Angeles-based gender equity coalition founded and led by Sundance Institute and Women In Film. Since joining the organisation, she has expanded their mid-career pipeline program to support women cinematographers in addition to directors, and launched the ReFrame ReSource, an industry-leading initiative to create connections across Hollywood’s diversity advocacy sector. Previously, Andria was Executive Director of Inside Out, Canada’s largest LGBTQ film festival. There, she established the world’s only LGBTQ Feature Film Financing Forum, launched two development funds, co-founded the North American Queer Festival Alliance (NAQFA), and spearheaded a 4-year partnership between Inside Out and Netflix. Under her Baby Daal Productions banner, co-founded with her wife Fawzia Mirza, Andria is in post-production on the feature Me, My Mom and Sharmila a Pakistan-Canada co-production. Baby Daal’s feature slate also includes Sandra Itäinen's upcoming queer Muslim documentary Coming Around and Drew Denny’s Gifted, which centers survivors of intimate partner violence with an all-survivor crew and creative team. Andria serves on the advisory board of Hire Survivors Hollywood, and is a consultant for EFM’s inaugural Toolbox program to support underrepresented directors in navigating their first international film market.