Andrew Unger-Test Tracks Artist/Developer and Video Documentary Instructor

Andrew Unger lives and works in New York City. He is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of Small Features, a venture backed Internet media production-company he co-founded in 2005. Andrew graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Amherst College with distinction in English and Film Studies in 2003. During his collegiate summers, and his first post-graduate year he worked as Program Director for The Ghetto Film School (GFS), a South Bronx Nonprofit Youth Arts Organization. There, in addition to teaching, fundraising and developing curriculum, he founded Digital Bodega, a student-operated media company providing commissioned projects for such clients as the German Consulate General and Cornell University. Andrew also initiated partnerships between GFS and several film industry professionals including David O. Russell (Director, Three Kings), Rachel Horovitz (Producer, About Schmidt), and Evan Shapiro (General Manager, IFC) all of whom now sit on the organization's Board of Directors. During this time, while implementing GFS programs at South Bronx High School, he saw firsthand the difficulty even the most eager and talented students had when faced with the statewide Regents tests, and witnessed the worry and stress these tests brought upon school's teachers and administrators. Andrew's own love of hip-hop, and the ease at which he, his peers, and his students seemed to memorize and recite rap lyrics, inspired him to create Test Tracks, a project aimed at linking this generation's enthusiasm for hip-hop, with the proven effectiveness of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition as memorization tools.