Andrea Arnold is British filmmaker and writer, her film Wasp won Oscar in category for Best Short Film, in 2005. Andrea's next film Red Road won Jury Prize on Cannes Film festival in 2006. Andrea's second short film Dog won The Jameson Award for Best Film at Brief Encounters 2001. It also screened at Critics Week Cannes,2002. Her first short Milk was officially selected for competition at Cannes Film Festival (Critics Week ’98), and also selected for Best of Critics Week,Cannes, ’99. It screened at 30 International Festivals, and was described by Film Review as 'An oustanding short film'. Andrea also directs natural history programmes from all over the world for UK network television. Previously she was well known as one of the characters in the UK’s cult TV series No37 before going to study filmmaking at The American Film Institute in Los Angeles.
She is invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Live Action Short Films Branch) in 2005.

Fifteen-year-old Leah comes from a housing estate that backs onto the dogend of the Thames some 20 miles east of London. She lives in a run down flat with her mum Val who unable to cope with life takes out her frustrations on her daughter. Deprived of love and attention at home Leah goes looking for it elsewhere. She lurches around the estate with abusive boyfriend John who at only ninetheen is already angry at the world. Dog takes place on what starts out as ordinary day for Leah but turns out to have a shocking conclusion when John is pushed over the edge by an innocuous incident.
An suburban tale about a girl,her mum , a boy and a dog.