Torrice Productions tells powerful contemporary stories through innovative video programs, public television documentaries and digital media.

Founded by award-winning journalist and video producer Andrea Torrice, Torrice Productions has created critically acclaimed public television and broadcast documentaries and video programs on cutting-edge issues: global warming, international human rights, health and education. She has also created a range of video works for museums, organizations and businesses. Her programs and videos have been screened in festivals, conferences and on broadcast channels around the world, including on the National Geographic World Channel, Discovery, European television, the Sundance Channel, and Australian and Japanese television.

Her programs have received numerous awards, including a Gold Award in Community Programming from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Her latest documentary series, The New Metropolis, explores the challenges and opportunities facing America’s older cities and suburbs. The series airs nationally on public television starting in fall, 2009. For more information, visit www.thenewmetropolis.com.

Torrice is a frequent guest speaker on the issues explored in her films. She has presented her work to panels at the U.N. and recently received the Turner Award for the Humanities Lecture Series at Lynchburg College.

Torrice also works with many government institutions, universities, museums, businesses and nonprofit organizations to create compelling visual work, both investigative and archival.

To find out more about Torrice Productions media services or speaking engagements visit our contact page.

What they are saying:

Taking Action to Cool Global Warming
An article highlighting Torrice's documentary, Rising Waters, in Rutgers's Douglass Now Newsletter special winter issue 2009/2010.
Written by Karin Oxford

“Andrea Torrice has the rare ability to draw you in and humanize complex policy issues that would otherwise be overlooked by audiences.”
Gail Silva
Former E.D., The Film Arts Foundation

“Torrice takes bold approaches in her work, and is a master at engaging her audiences.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“Torrice makes remarkable films about ordinary people and places. Her compassion for her subjects comes through, and makes the stories most compelling.”
Carl Anthony
Senior Fellow, Ford Foundation

(About Rising Waters) "Torrice's work is hauntingly beautiful.... this film uses new science and a fresh idiom. "
Mountain Film Festival

(About Rising Waters) “... Finally, a film that has put a human face on the global warming issue from people most at risk. Torrice has given them a voice and an international stage for the first time.... The stunning cinematography makes the story all the more compelling.”
The Star Ledger