About Us
Andy Gardner is an Emmy and Film Festival Awards-Winning Cinematographer with over three decades of experience in film and television, with a clients including Donato's Pizza, Victoria's Secret, Limited Brands and working as a camera operator on television shows. In addition to shooting, Andy creates projection design for live shows and visual effects for both film and broadcast commercials, earning a film festival nomination for Best Visual Effects in London, UK. He has multiple wins in the categories of Best Documentary, Best Suspense/Thriller and Best Comedy Web Series at film festivals across the US and Europe, in addition to an Emmy Award for his Cinematography on "Queens of Columbus", a documentary about the then underground world of female illusionist in the time of AIDS, Andy also received an Emmy Award for Audio Post-Production as well as an Emmy nomination for Music Composition for one of his scores. His newest endeavor is a film school at his studio, designed to teach the basics of film craft to youth and film school students and recent graduates, bridging the gap from the classroom to the professional set.
BS in Telecommunication (audio concentration) with Minors in Film and Music Composition from Ohio University.
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Jennifer Enskat is an Actor, Director and Award-Winning Editor and Producer. Beginning her career at the ripe age of four, Jen worked for decades as an actor in film, TV, theatre, radio and television commercials from Los Angeles to New York, working with directors like Stephen Chbosky, Kevin Smith, Adrian Lyne and Andy Goddard. Having dabbled in Production classes while a theatre major at Northwestern University, Jen eventually found herself turning to the production side, adding the roles of director, producer and editor to her resume, working in both dramatic and comedic short film, documentaries, commercials and web series, winning Female Filmmaker of the Year at Austin Revolution Film Festival, Best Editor at Long Island International Film Expo in New York, several "Best Of" awards for documentary film, horror/suspense film and comedy web series at festivals across the US and in Europe, plus nominations for Best Director at festivals in Austin, TX and London, UK. She was a Finalist in the Accolade Global Film Competition's Humanitarian of the Year Award for "The Bride Price", her documentary about forced marriage in Malawi, Africa. Jen is currently focused on their film school at Leapyear Studios that opened autumn of 2023.
"Leapyear Studios Film School opens in Braintree Building"
Symbol of Strength: "Give Voice to People Whose Voice Has Been Taken Away."
The Bride Price: "The Bride Price has already won multiple accolades but Enskat said no award or review will top the endorsement of Kachindamoto. "
Neos Dance Theatre: "Andy's work is very clean, and he comes with a wealth of history and work that influences the collaboration in a very positive and deep way."
"Actor-Producer Jennifer Enskat set to open film school in Mansfield"
A 1940s Nutcracker: "Gardner is using projection mapping to create a virtual 3D map of Mansfield as it was in the 1940s, which will be projected onto screens during performances."
Leapyear Films: "Leapyear Studios takes up a sizeable section of the third floor at Braintree and holds the company offices, space for photo shoots and their next planned venture, a film school. "
Neos Dance Theatre: "Count... The Legend of Dracula sets itself apart from hackneyed seasonal entertainments with eye-popping projections by Emmy Award-winning Visual Effects Artist Andy Gardner."
"Stunning multimedia projections by Emmy Award-winner Andy Gardner had no small part in those productions."
Real Mommy Confessions: "Attention all moms! This video series will make you LOL! Celebrates the sometimes not-so-pretty side of being a mom."
Real Mommy Confessions: Si vous êtes papa ou une maman, ma sélection du jour est faite pour vous ! Dans Real Mommy Confessions, maman cache des affaires de femmes !
Neos Dance Theatre: "Neos will reprise Fenn's cartoonish, colorful Nothing in Particular, including animation and visual effects by Andy Gardner and costumes by Inda Blatch-Geib."
Real Mommy Confessions: "Real Mommy Confessions understands the judgmental cashier phobia that can hit you right in the gut, and with their hysterical new video, they encourage moms to take pride in that Monistat shopping trip!"
Neos Dance Theatre: "The ballet's magic mirror was a marvelous film projection effect by the Emmy Award-winning Andy Gardner that lit up the stage and added to the ballet's above average production value."
Neos Dance Theatre: "The collaboration of Emmy Award-winning Andy Gardner, choreographer Bobby Wesner, and writer Michael Thomas has produced a thrilling multimedia event combining rock, pop, and industrial music with video imagining and the innovative staging that has become the hallmark of Neos Dance Theatre."
Jennifer Enskat prominently featured in an internet magazine article about Women in Comedy.
Jen participated in the 2021 Filmmakers Roundtable at Long Island International Film Expo in Bellmore, New York, discussing the "not-so-funny-at-the-time experiences that are now funny" of fundraising, shooting a film in a third world county.
