Anna Baumgarten: Film

The Artistic Fuel Podcast

Anna hails from the Michigan mitten and is a Los Angeles-based Writer/Director and freelance TV Development Consultant. She has been a core development team member at Rob Dyrdek's Superjacket Productions and Mona Scott-Young's Monami Productions where she developed unscripted content for MTV, Nickelodeon, Vh1, WeTV, BET, and CMT.
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Most recently, Anna's debut feature film Disfluency won the Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival. Disfluency was developed at the inaugural Jim Cummings' Short to Feature Lab where Anna was one of ten fellows competitively selected for her short film Disfluency. Disfluency is also the recipient of the Duplass Brother's Hometown Heroes "Oh Shit!" Grant and a selection of 10th US in Progress Wroclaw. She has several feature and TV scripts currently in development.
As a filmmaker, Anna additionally has an independent TV pilot, a dozen short films, and a digital PSA campaign under her belt. Her short film Line Dry premiered at the Oscar Qualifying Palm Springs International Shortsfest in 2020. She has also written animated TV episodes for the Warner Bros 2017 revival series Wacky Races. She is the media partner of SafeBAE, an organization founded by the young survivors in Netflix’s Audrie & Daisy. SafeBAE works to provide sexual assault awareness and prevention education to middle, high school, and college students. Anna produced their digital PSA campaign #QuitThisShit featured in Teen Vogue.