Andrew C. Coles is an Emmy-nominated producer, manager, activist, consultant, curator + DJ - he currently serves as the Founder & CEO of The Mission Entertainment. He graduated from Harvard University with an honors degree in African-American studies + Film Theory.

 Before founding The Mission Entertainment, he worked in the Motion Picture Literary Department at CAA and at Overbrook Entertainment (founded by Will Smith, James Lassiter + Jada Pinkett Smith) where he worked under Franklin Leonard (founder of The Black List). From Overbrook he relocated to New York to run development for Scott Rudin Productions, working across film, TV and theatre.

 In 2013, Andrew created The Mission Entertainment – a production + management company whose purpose and philosophical foundation lies in serving as an advocate for storytellers that have been traditionally overlooked, undervalued and underrepresented. With a childhood dream of becoming a civil rights criminal defense attorney, Andrew has married his passions for storytelling + social justice advocacy through working in the entertainment industry – helping to create images that are truly representative of the world we live in. He represents writers, directors, producers and showrunners who tell intentionally intersectional stories that bridge cultures and communities and give a voice to those who have been omitted from traditional narratives.

On the production side, Andrew served as Producer of HBO’s feature documentary, BEING MARY TYLER MOORE, which was nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special for the 2023 Emmy Awards.  Additionally, he was a Producer of Universal’s Queen & Slim, Melina Matsoukas’ debut feature, as well as Executive Producer of the BET series Twenties. He is currently developing a documentary feature, It Only Takes One, about the devastating lack of Black and mixed-race donors in the National Bone Marrow Registry. He is also the co-host of “Film Filosophy” – a podcast that breaks down the philosophies, concepts, and structures of filmmaking in the American film industry. 

In addition to his production work, Andrew is currently incubating the mission radio, a non-profit art collective committed to personal transformation + world change through spirituality + creativity. In 2021, under the mission radio, he ran The Mission on Kaua’i, a spiritual retreat and creative campus on the island of Kaua’i that served as a collaborative laboratory for writers, musicians, filmmakers, photographers and executives alongside his creative partner, Fimi Fafowora.