---
name: "Andres Heinz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/andres-heinz"
fi1m_id: "andres-heinz"
imdb_id: "nm0374560"
tmdb_id: 143259
wikidata_id: "Q11958060"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T23:33:59.378755+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Andres Heinz

## Identity

Andres Heinz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/andres-heinz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** andres-heinz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0374560
- **TMDB ID:** 143259
- **Wikidata ID:** Q11958060
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11958060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374560/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143259

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11958060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0374560/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/143259

## Biography

Andres Heinz is a writer and director. He is credited with the story for the 2010 film *Black Swan*, directed by Darren Aronofsky, with the screenplay also credited to him along with Mark Heyman and John McLaughlin.

Heinz attended UCLA and NYU film schools, completing a BFA. His thesis film "Ground Level B" won first place in the Mobil Award. After graduation he worked in film and television production, including as production coordinator for the film unit at *Saturday Night Live*. He directed the feature *Origin of the Species* (1998) and has sold several original screenplays, one of which, *The Understudy*, provided the basis for *Black Swan*.

He received a BAFTA nomination for his work on *Black Swan*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Black Swan* (2010), Fi1m 82, Story, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Black Swan* (2010), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/black-swan.md)
- *Origin of the Species* (1998), Director
- *A Ladder to the Sky*, Screenplay

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