Andrea Dorfman (born October 29, 1968) is a Canadian screenwriter and film director based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

[1] She mainly creates short and feature films but also works on mini-documentaries for the Equality Effect, a human rights organization.

[1] She lives in Halifax with her boyfriend Dave Hayden, his children Max and Sydney, their two cats and dog.

[1] Dorfman's first major film, Swerve (1998), tells the story of a group of friends who embark on a road trip which winds up in an uncomfortable lesbian love triangle.

[5] The film is a comedy about a young woman seeking an abortion after accidentally conceiving a child with her boyfriend.

The main character, Kate, has been dating Ollie since high school but finds herself unhappy with the relationship.

[1] Dorfman also filmed Lost and Found (2008), which focused on local Halifax artist and writer Jane Kansas and her collection of knowledge about Harper Lee, who is best known for writing the novel To Kill a Mockingbird.

In 2009, Dorfman used a grant from BravoFACT to create an animated short film based on a poem by Tanya Davis, titled How to Be Alone.

In 2010 Dorfman posted the piece on YouTube where it went viral and gained over a million views in a few months and accolades from Roger Ebert and The Atlantic.

[1] In 2020 Dorfman created the sequel film How to Be At Home, based on another poem by Davis about coping with isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

Flawed was produced in Halifax by Annette Clarke for the National Film Board of Canada.

[1] Her final film that year was, another short animation, called The Drums based on the song of the same name by Tanya Davis.

[1] In 2018 she announced she was working on the film Spinster starring Chelsea Peretti about a woman convinced she will spend the rest of her life single after being dumped on her 39th birthday.