About
About
Andrea Chalupa is a journalist, filmmaker, author, and activist. She is the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller Mr. Jones, directed by three-time Academy Award-nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa; The Secret Garden; House of Cards; The Wire) and starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, and Peter Sarsgaard. Her script for Mr. Jones will be published by Oni Press. She is the author of Orwell and The Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, which was taught in several high schools in Canada in a genocide studies program called Orwell Art. Andrea hosts the popular civic action podcast Gaslit Nation, a Webby Award Honoree, in the spirit of The Golden Girls sitting around a cheesecake discussing geopolitics. With her Gaslit Nation co-founder Sarah Kendzior, Andrea wrote the bestselling graphic novel Dictatorship: It’s Easier Than You Think!, a wild ride showing the perks and pitfalls of becoming a dictator, and how to overthrow one…
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS
2004
Andrea helped launch online video programs for Condé Nast Portfolio and AOL Money & Finance. She regularly reported on-camera for these outlets, and covered the presidential conventions, the Sundance Film Festival, and Ford Motor Company’s Scientific Research Laboratory. After graduating from the University of California at Davis with high honors in History, with a focus on Soviet History, she worked as a community organizer in the 2004 presidential election, wrote for the alternative weekly the Portland Mercury in Oregon, and lived in Ukraine where she hitchhiked in Kyiv, auditioned to be a national news anchor, and helped start a rock band.
1945
Andrea’s mother and father were born in displaced persons camps in 1945 Europe. The dictatorship of the Soviet Union that her grandparents escaped has been one of her major preoccupations since childhood, leading her to discover a priceless “gift” from George Orwell in her family. This is the subject of a lecture she gave at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that she expanded into the book Orwell and the Refugees: The Untold Story of Animal Farm, with an original cover illustrated by artist, activist, and investigative journalist Molly Crabapple whose work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).
2014