Andrew Bilindabagabo

Andrew Bilindabagabo is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and educator, born and raised in Rwanda. He is a co-founder of INGOMA, a human-centered film production company and studio, with work across narrative, documentary, and commercial projects. He is a graduate of Templeton Honors College at Eastern University.

His producing credits include the narrative feature “I Think I’m Sick”, winner of the Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature at the SF Independent Film Festival, and the feature documentary “The Elephants and the Grass”. He directed the short “Adamstown”, a BlackStar Film Festival selection, and is a 2025 Philadelphia Filmmaker Lab Fellow at BlackStar. His work has appeared in Time, Forbes, ABC, and New Times.

He is currently working on “New Neighbors”, an immersive art installation about the Lancaster that immigrants build after they arrive and start living. He makes the global specific and the specific global, and is drawn to the stories of people who have been erased from our narratives.

He teaches from active practice, bringing current productions into the classroom, and is committed to creating on-ramps into the film industry for the storytellers who come next.