Andrew Hewitt

Speaker, writer, character and narrative consultant, psychoanalytic thinker, screen composer.

I help shape stories, films, and experiences at the intersection of cinema and psyche.

I have forty years of international creative experience in film, television, and music, and a BAFTA Nomination.

Born in England in 1976, I live in Los Angeles and hold both American and British citizenships.

STUDY & PERFORMANCE

After an early career as a child classical performer, I earned a Masters in Music from Cambridge University - thesis: Wagnerian Thematic Technique in John Williams's Star Wars Trilogy - won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, and gained the LAMDA Gold Medal for Acting.

I performed and toured worldwide in hundreds of classical concerts, recordings, and operas, and in soundtracks including the Star Wars Prequels and Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

PSYCHOANALYSIS

I have completed the Introductory and Foundation courses at the British Institute of Psychoanalysis - including a year's clinical observation at London's Halliwick Center for Borderline Personality Disorder - and received two decades of in-depth personal psychoanalysis. I've also attended short courses, lectures, and workshops at the Philadelphia Association, the London Centre for Psychotherapy, the New Center for Psychoanalysis, California's New Center for Psychoanalysis, and the Los Angeles Institute and Society for Psychoanalytic Studies.

FILM & TV SCORING

I have composed the orchestral and electronic scores to over twenty feature films, as well as numerous television series, documentaries, and commercials. I have orchestrated, conducted, and produced all my scores.

ONLINE COURSE

I have created a unique course for filmmakers on the use of music in cinema - The Composer's Voice. The course examines film music as dramatic insight - how score can embody character, reveal or conceal truth, subvert expectation, and think expressively within the world of a film.