Andrew Belk is a Melbourne-based writer and filmmaker. He studied journalism at the University of Southern Queensland and film at the Victorian college of Arts. His films and writing reflect his search for the Australia he was promised as a kid.

In 2003 he won the inaugural Josephine Ulrick prize for literature for his story, 'The big Jesus' which was published in the first issue of Griffith REVIEW. He was also a contestant for the Australian Women's Weekly Short Story Contest in 2004 where he was a joint runner up for 'Instructions for the Tiger'.