Justin Andrus

Freelance Storyteller

United States

Recent Penn State grad with a BA in film production and a creative writing minor. Author of dozens of short stories (one published), director of multiple student films, and writer of several screenplays.

Portfolio

Fiction

Kalliope - Penn State's Undergraduate Literary Magazine
2019
Haunted

Grant hopes to escape his brother's death when his family moves from Michigan to Malibu, but the water still taunts in the Pacific.

Unpublished
2021
Pineapple Doesn't Sit Well with the Trees

When department-of-transportation driver Chuck wakes up in an overturned truck at the bottom of a snowy roadside cliff, his only chance at survival is a peculiar pizza-delivery boy who prioritizes his work over Chuck's wellbeing.

Unpublished
2019
Dear Madcaps and Killjoys

Doug dreamed of fending off zombies from Lady Liberty's crown as a youngster, but as an adult, the living dead just stress him out.

Screenplays

Unpublished
2021
The Old Lady and the Mack

Dorothy finally learns how to catch the scarred fish that's taunted her for years, but she'll have to risk the only possession left to remind her of her mother—a white lure.

Unpublished
2021
The Pizzeria's Underwear

Former underwear model Chance Hugo is closing in on a second location for his fitness-themed pizzeria, but has to put it off when the underwear packages that decorate his diner are stolen.

Films and Film Musings

Senior Thesis Film
2020
A Child's Forest

Three friends--a blind aspiring writer, a major league hopeful, and a wannabe painter--know that each of their dream lives lie just past the Forest, but if legend holds true, their journey to the Other Side will be a dark and dangerous one.

Dashing Agent
06/19/2019
On Giving it a Shot

A reflection on what kept me from making movies for so long, and why it shouldn't keep you.