Anna Anaka

Director

Anaka Productions Inc.

BIOGRAPHIE

Anna Anaka is a Canadian writer/director of Filipino and Spanish descent. She currently resides in Vancouver, BC, but is proud to have been born and raised in Swift Current, SK. She holds a Bachelor of Media Arts in Film + Screen Arts from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her art practice in filmmaking explores themes of identity, memory and morality. With a cinematic style that plays with space and time, her character-driven stories examine the human condition and stimulate critical engagement from her audiences. In addition to her work in the commercial film industry, she is currently developing her first feature length projects: Discomfort, which addresses sexual exploitation in historical and contemporary contexts, and Looking Back, based on her dramatic, musical short of the same name, which explores themes of family and mental health.

FILMOGRAPHIE