Anna McNutt is a London-based writer-producer.

 

Her award-winning short films have screened at major Oscar®, BAFTA, & BIFA-qualifying festivals worldwide. BabyThump, garnered a Vimeo Staff Pick, a UK Audience Award,  and competed  in the 2023/24 European Short Film Audience Award - amassing 3,000+ views within 10 hours of its online release and screenings at Aesthetica (UK), Clermont-Ferrand (France), and Tampere (Finland) among others. For Him - a no-dialogue horror - won Best Screenplay at BIFA-qualifying Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival (UK).​

 

Her latest, The Bunker, is a taut 16mm chamber piece set in a near-future Britain, starring Sura Dohnke ('Klokkenluider'), and Evie Templeton (Netflix's 'Wednesday'  S2).  Executive produced by Simon Maloney ('This City is Ours', Peaky Blinders' ) in his first film EP role, the film premiered at BAFTA-qualifying Carmarthen Bay Film Festival (UK) with recent selections at Oscar®-qualifying Odense (Denmark) and Newport Beach (USA).  ​​

 

Alongside filmmaking, Anna’s writing and photography has appeared in Writersbloc, 

GoldDust, and The Smiths.  In 2019, her poetry was published in Words By_ a UNICEF x NextGen anthology created to raise funds for children impacted by war.

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Raised by an American father and a Yugoslavian mother, Anna’s creative voice is shaped by a multilingual, cross-cultural upbringing. Her work often explores identity, power, and survival through female-led narratives.

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She holds a BA and an MA from Goldsmiths, University of London, and is a member of BAFTA Connect and the Production Guild of Great Britain.

 

Anna  worked on high-profile commercial and fashion productions - including Vogue’s 73 Questions - before transitioning to TV, where she supported Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Jane Featherstone, at Emmy-winning SISTER. ​She now works as a Development Coordinator at UK's leading indie film company, Potboiler Productions.​

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