Anna Lo Westlin is a Directing Fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory (AFI), where she is the recipient of the AFI AWARDS Audi Scholarship, The Tom Yoda Scholarship Award and The Women In Film/Tichi Wilkerson Kassel Endowed Scholarship. Born in Uppsala, Sweden, she began her film career as a production associate at Killer Films in New York, and from there, went on to work at Magnolia Pictures, where she held several positions including acquisitions executive. Westlin thereafter relocated to Stockholm to work as a producer at SF Studios. She served as an associate producer on the Academy Award-nominated film A MAN CALLED OVE; associate producer on the Cannes Film Festival Un Certain Regard Prize winner THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE OF OLLI MÄKI and co-producer on BORG MCENROE, which opened the Toronto Film Festival; amongst others. Westlin also wrote and directed the short film LADIES WHO LUNCH, which premiered at Way Out West, Scandinavia's largest film and music festival. Westlin is currently in post-production with her AFI thesis film BIENVENIDO JUANITO, a short film set in present-day Los Angeles. Westlin lives between Stockholm and Los Angeles with her partner and two young children.