Jennifer Harrington & Tara Anaise (Housekeeping, Dark Mountain, Shook, Queer for Fear)

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Writer/Director Jennifer Harrington’s (DGA/WGA) most recent scripts, HELL’S BELLES (Hollywood Reporter), and THE END OF LIZ AS WE KNOW IT (Hollywood Reporter), were sold to Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures, respectively, with Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar attached to produce.  Previously, she wrote and directed the horror feature SHOOK, acquired by the streamer Shudder and reviewed by the Wall Street Journal as a "guilty pleasure.”  Her first feature, HOUSEKEEPING, was released by Lionsgate and After Dark Films.  In the documentary world, she was co-executive producer and a director for the doc-series DEAR… for Apple TV+ (Variety) and RJ Cutler.  As an editor, she has edited several award-winning documentary features and countless television shows: GAGA: FIVE FOOT TWO for Netflix which premiered at TIFF, the Emmy-nominated feature documentary BANKSY DOES NEW YORK for HBO, THE SOURCE FAMILY premiering at SXSW, and BOGALUSA CHARM premiering at Slamdance, on which she was credited as a writer for as well.  She has two film degrees: a BFA from UCLA and an MFA from USC.

Tara Anaïse is an Indian American writer/director, a Sundance Feature Film Program Fellow, and an Emmy nominee. Her most recent work includes writing and directing on the season finale of Shudder’s Queer for Fear (from EP Bryan Fuller), a docuseries about the history of horror told through a queer lens, and producing all four episodes of the series. Queer for Fear was nominated for a 2023 Emmy for Outstanding Arts and Culture Documentary, a 2023 GLAAD Award for Outstanding Documentary, and the winner of two 2023 Dorian Awards for Best TV Documentary and Best LGBTQ Documentary. Anaïse’s début feature, Dark Mountain, was released by Gravitas Ventures and peaked at number 8 in iTunes top horror. Anaïse also wrote and story produced on Dear… for Apple TV+ (nominated for a 2022 IDA doc award) and ran the story department on Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult for STARZ. Her upcoming projects include the features Bombay Blood, which she workshopped at the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive in Los Angeles, and Wildcats, a dark coming-of-age crime drama set in the California desert. She holds an MFA in film production from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a BA in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She lives and works in Los Angeles.