Anne Norda, Writer/Director/Teacher
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...
After "stopping out" from Stanford University where she began as a pre-med, Anne realized that her true passions in life were expressed through the arts. She enrolled in the photography program at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and graduated from the New York campus with a BFA. The momentous day she first stepped foot on a movie set while volunteering as a set photographer on an NYU student film, Anne experienced a life-altering epiphany. She knew in an instant right down to her bones that she would be a filmmaker. She's never wavered from her commitment to fulfill on that directive even when it's seemed impossible, impractical, ridiculous, or downright delusional.
As a Fulbright scholar in Finland, while creating a photographic interpretation of the "Kalevala" -- their national mythical epic -- Anne began adapting the story into a screenplay which she hopes to some day translate to the screen. She then had an opportunity to live in Bangkok and work 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 written and directed numerous short films and music videos. She has been involved in theater in the L.A. area as a playwright and director and participated in WORDSMITHS, the LATC advanced playwrights' workshop with Alice Tuan. Her favorite theater gigs have been writing and directing for the wacky 24 hour plays at the Sacred Fools and the Eclectic Theater companies.
Anne wrote and directed her debut feature film, RED IS THE COLOR OF, adapted from her own play. It won several "Best Feature Film" festival awards and received international distribution. The film is currently available on Netflix. MovieMaker Magazine features a blog "Notes from Movieland" a comedic take on Hollywood and independent filmmaking, written by Anne.
Her next feature film, a comedy/horror about the terrors of relationships, STOP, I'M NOT DEAD YET! is in development and will be shot in Louisiana. Her romantic zombie comedy short, HARD TO LOVE, is on the festival circuit.
Anne will be presenting lectures on Intuitive Screenwriting at the Great American Pitchfest and the Scriptwriter's Network this summer and is working on a book on Creative Screenwriting.
Anne is the creator and co-director of The Script-a-thon, a national screenwriting marathon and competition. She is a member of The Alliance of Women Directors and runs a poetry reading series in the valley.
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“I’ve known Anne Norda for more than 10 years and in that time have read thousands of words
that she has penned, from magazine articles to poems to screenplays to blogs. She is, very simply,
a wonderful writer whose work is consistently captivating, witty, surprising and intellectual."
Timothy E. Rhys
Founder and Publisher
MovieMaker Magazine
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...
After "stopping out" from Stanford University where she began as a pre-med, Anne realized that her true passions in life were expressed through the arts. She enrolled in the photography program at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and graduated from the New York campus with a BFA. The momentous day she first stepped foot on a movie set while volunteering as a set photographer on an NYU student film, Anne experienced a life-altering epiphany. She knew in an instant right down to her bones that she would be a filmmaker. She's never wavered from her commitment to fulfill on that directive even when it's seemed impossible, impractical, ridiculous, or downright delusional.
As a Fulbright scholar in Finland, while creating a photographic interpretation of the "Kalevala" -- their national mythical epic -- Anne began adapting the story into a screenplay which she hopes to some day translate to the screen. She then had an opportunity to live in Bangkok and work 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 written and directed numerous short films and music videos. She has been involved in theater in the L.A. area as a playwright and director and participated in WORDSMITHS, the LATC advanced playwrights' workshop with Alice Tuan. Her favorite theater gigs have been writing and directing for the wacky 24 hour plays at the Sacred Fools and the Eclectic Theater companies.
Anne wrote and directed her debut feature film, RED IS THE COLOR OF, adapted from her own play. It won several "Best Feature Film" festival awards and received international distribution. The film is currently available on Netflix. MovieMaker Magazine features a blog "Notes from Movieland" a comedic take on Hollywood and independent filmmaking, written by Anne.
Her next feature film, a comedy/horror about the terrors of relationships, STOP, I'M NOT DEAD YET! is in development and will be shot in Louisiana. Her romantic zombie comedy short, HARD TO LOVE, is on the festival circuit.
Anne will be presenting lectures on Intuitive Screenwriting at the Great American Pitchfest and the Scriptwriter's Network this summer and is working on a book on Creative Screenwriting.
Anne is the creator and co-director of The Script-a-thon, a national screenwriting marathon and competition. She is a member of The Alliance of Women Directors and runs a poetry reading series in the valley.
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“I’ve known Anne Norda for more than 10 years and in that time have read thousands of words
that she has penned, from magazine articles to poems to screenplays to blogs. She is, very simply,
a wonderful writer whose work is consistently captivating, witty, surprising and intellectual."
Timothy E. Rhys
Founder and Publisher
MovieMaker Magazine
