The Process
By Zia Anger | September 3, 2024
The Process
My First Film director (and new mother) Zia Anger on what it takes to make something and usher into the world.
Zia Anger
Zia Anger is a filmmaker and music video director. Her debut feature, My First Film, is streaming globally on MUBI from September 6. In 2018 she began touring a new solo performance that traces the last ten years of her lost and abandoned work, titled My First Film. The performance was named by The New Yorker as one of the “Sixty-two Films That Shaped the Art of Documentary Filmmaking.” Her most recent short, My Last Film, premiered at the 53rd New York Film Festival. She has made music videos for various independent artists, including Angel Olsen, Mitski, Julianna Barwick, Maggie Rogers, and Jenny Hval; the latter of whom she also tours with as a performer. In 2016, Zia participated in the Sundance Institute’s Screenwriter’s Intensive, and in 2015 she was included in Filmmaker magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.” Find out more at her official site. (Picture by Theo Anthony.)
Talks
[to tell other people’s stories]
By Zia Anger | December 27, 2017
[to tell other people’s stories]
Zia Anger gives her personal take on the controversy surrounding David France and his film The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.
[to tell other people’s stories]
By Zia Anger | October 18, 2017
[to tell other people’s stories]
Zia Anger gives her personal take on the controversy surrounding David France and his film The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson.
Why Indie Film Only Has a Future If We Embrace Radical Transparency
By Zia Anger | May 24, 2017
Why Indie Film Only Has a Future If We Embrace Radical Transparency
While waiting to make her first feature, Zia Anger dives deep into her complicated feelings about the world of independent film.
