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About Anne

Anne is a Dutch filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She holds the MFA Film & TV Production from The University of Southern California (USC), where she was a recipient of the merit-based Jack Nicholson directing scholarship and The Fox Fellowship for the VFX in her thesis film.

Her short film, “Out of the smoke”, a fantasy film about a shapeshifting dragon, screened at American Pavillion’s NextGen Showcase at the Cannes film festival (2025) and the Oscar and BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival. 

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She just completed her virtual thesis film Fuel Up, about a female race car driver, which combined new film production techniques such as virtual production (LED volume), VFX and AI. It will screen at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival (American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase).

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LET'S GO BANANAS

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