Anne Norda writer/director
Anne is a first generation American, an amalgam of a Finnish mother and a Polish/Jewish father from Warsaw. Thus her unusual sense of humor. If Tarkovsky and Monty Python had a baby - she'd have Anne's world view. OK, so Monty Python isn't a person, but if he were...
Anne enrolled in the photography program at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and graduated from the New York campus with a BFA. The day she first stepped foot on a movie set while volunteering on an NYU student film, Anne experienced a life-altering epiphany. She knew right down to her bones that she would be a filmmaker. She's never wavered from that commitment even when it's seemed impossible, impractical, ridiculous, or downright delusional.
As a Fulbright scholar in Finland, Anne created a photographic interpretation of the "Kalevala" -- their national mythical epic. She then had an opportunity to live and work in Bangkok as editor of ACCENT THAI magazine. On her return to America, she worked on independent films and commercials in a variety of positions. Anne has taken screenwriting courses at USC and independently. She's written over 20 screenplays.
Anne wrote and directed numerous short films and music videos. She directed the first FOUR NON BLONDES video, "Dear Mr. President." She has been involved in theater as a playwright and director and participated in WORDSMITHS, the LATC advanced playwrights' workshop. Her favorite theater gigs have been writing and directing for the wacky 24 hour plays at the Sacred Fools Theater company where she will soon be holding a reading for her new play, THE PLAYWRIGHT.
Anne wrote, directed and produced her debut feature film, RED IS THE COLOR OF which won several "Best Feature Film" festival awards and received international distribution. The film is currently available on Netflix. MovieMaker Magazine features her blog "Notes from Movieland"-- a comedic take on Hollywood and independent filmmaking. Anne's romantic zombie comedy musical short, HARD TO LOVE, is on the festival circuit. Anne lectures on intuitive screenwriting and teaches a workshop called INTUITIVE SCREENWRITING in Sherman Oaks www.writebrainworkshop.com. She's writing a book on her unique approach to screenwriting: illustrating ways to free the unconscious mind and access a higher level of creativity.
Anne enrolled in the photography program at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and graduated from the New York campus with a BFA. The day she first stepped foot on a movie set while volunteering on an NYU student film, Anne experienced a life-altering epiphany. She knew right down to her bones that she would be a filmmaker. She's never wavered from that commitment even when it's seemed impossible, impractical, ridiculous, or downright delusional.
As a Fulbright scholar in Finland, Anne created a photographic interpretation of the "Kalevala" -- their national mythical epic. She then had an opportunity to live and work in Bangkok as editor of ACCENT THAI magazine. On her return to America, she worked on independent films and commercials in a variety of positions. Anne has taken screenwriting courses at USC and independently. She's written over 20 screenplays.
Anne wrote and directed numerous short films and music videos. She directed the first FOUR NON BLONDES video, "Dear Mr. President." She has been involved in theater as a playwright and director and participated in WORDSMITHS, the LATC advanced playwrights' workshop. Her favorite theater gigs have been writing and directing for the wacky 24 hour plays at the Sacred Fools Theater company where she will soon be holding a reading for her new play, THE PLAYWRIGHT.
Anne wrote, directed and produced her debut feature film, RED IS THE COLOR OF which won several "Best Feature Film" festival awards and received international distribution. The film is currently available on Netflix. MovieMaker Magazine features her blog "Notes from Movieland"-- a comedic take on Hollywood and independent filmmaking. Anne's romantic zombie comedy musical short, HARD TO LOVE, is on the festival circuit. Anne lectures on intuitive screenwriting and teaches a workshop called INTUITIVE SCREENWRITING in Sherman Oaks www.writebrainworkshop.com. She's writing a book on her unique approach to screenwriting: illustrating ways to free the unconscious mind and access a higher level of creativity.