Filmmaker Andrew de Zen joins the Farm League roster

Fire and sweat, light and reflection, smoke and longing. It doesn't take long for Andrew de Zen's films to envelope you in their worlds.

His work balances intimacy with enormous scale to capture the full range of human emotion. Pulling from his varied passions -- narrative, photography, animation, sport, travel, and more -- Andrew's films are crafted with precision to take you on a journey. Sometimes that journey is an internal one, represented through big conceptual worlds. Other times, it is the vast world that creates an internal change.

This expertise is central to his ongoing collaborations with musician Alaskan Tapes, as seen in 2026 release “Holocene”, which blends raw performances and grounded cinematography with heightened worlds and purposeful visual effects. In the film - which was featured on Director's Library and Shots - a young couple must decide if they want to have a child brought into an increasingly broken world.

“Andrew's work stopped me — that's always what I look for. He's a writer, a hyper-creative technician, and a visualist, and those things rarely live in the same director. I love his short; Holocene showed us a filmmaker who can make the intimate feel enormous. We're excited to go further with him." 

- TL (Tim Lynch, Farm League Founder)

With awards and recognition from Cannes Lions, the YDAs, Berlin Commercial Awards, the British Arrows, Shots Awards EMEA, and, most recently, multiple 2025 CICLOPE awards for his Amnesty International film ‘The Robbery’, Andrew’s work exists without borders. His storytelling carries international appeal through his resonant visual style and honest characters.

“I've always been someone who prides themselves in being adaptable, and Farm League feels like an extension of how I like to work," Andrew says. "Farm League's initiative into a more focused director roster, choosing to foster its creative excellence by supporting narrative and passion projects from their directors, and this feeling of a close knit family, all really stood out. It's a company run by people who are really fucking good at what they do."