Filmmaking

Anna’s directorial work has been nominated for awards at festivals such as TIFF, PÖFF Black Nights, PalmSprings, Fantasia and the BFI London Film Festival.
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She has won awards at the London Short Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival and Underwire Film Festival among others.
In 2018 her short film YOUR MOTHER AND I was nominated for Best ShortFilm at the London Critics’ Circle Awards.
She is currently in post production with her first feature EXTERNAL NEIGHBOURS, supported by Telefilm's Talent to Watch Programme.

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Thriller
2024
8 minutes
On a trip to Los Angeles to visit a new flame, Anna finds herself lost, stoned and alone…or is she?
Credits
Writer, Director, Producer, Actor
Festivals Include
  • Fantasia International Film Festival
  • SXSW Sydney
    Chattanooga Film Festival
  • Santa Fe International FilmFestival
  • Kiev International Film Festival
Prizes/Screenings
  • Quantum Intimacies | Brooklyn, NY (2025)
    Endless Loop Gallery Presentation at Millennium Film Workshop
    FilmIndependent Presents at Landmark Sunset | LA, CA (2025)
    w/ Pavements
  • Ojai Playhouse | Ojai, CA (2025)
    w/ The Truman Show
  • Film Break Society | Norfolk, VA (2025)
    w/ Looking For Mr. Goodbar
    Short. Sweet. Film Festival (2025)
    Best Horror Film
Reviews
‘A disturbing gut punch of a film’
– Unseen Films

‘Close to comedy territory – and yet the phenomenon it addresses has much wider implications’
– Eye for Film

‘...cleverly mirrors our societal obsession with surveillance’
– Overly Honest Reviews

Constellations

Drama
2024
18 minutes
As a young woman realises her sexual needs have grown beyond her relationshipwith her boyfriend, a chance encounter allows her to take control of her fantasies.
Credits
Writer, Director, Producer, Actor
Festivals Include
  • Schnit Worldwide Short Film Festival
  • TIFF Short Film Screening Series - Spring Fever
    PÖFF Black Nights
    Aesthetica Art Prize Future Now Symposium
    Vimeo Staff Picks, Short of the Week
Prizes/Screenings
  • Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival - Cinematic Achievement Award Winner
    Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival - Best Actress Award Winner
    Underwire Film Festival - Acting Award Nominee
  • Palm Springs ShortFest - Screenwriting Award Winner
  • Vimeo Staff Picks - Short of the Week
Reviews
'It's made with total respect for its audience's imagination. It is written in the language of inference, with regard to camera movement, dialogue and performance. Everything is presented simply and yet is so loaded.'
– Little White Lies

'Anna Maguire's new short film about female sexuality, CONSTELLATIONS, draws thematic and aesthetic parallels with Céline Sciamma's #PortratofaLadyonFire.'
– Curzon Film

IT'S NOTHING

2019
Horror/Drama
16 minutes
Recent graduate, Robin, returns to her parents’ house and obsessively starts to dig a hole, encouraged by an impossibly perfect girl; but as she digs, she heads further down a path of self-destruction.

TW: this film deals with eating disorders
Credits
Director, Producer
Festivals Include
  • Festival du Nouveau Cinéma
  • Sun Valley Film Festival
  • Cucalorus Film Festival
  • Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival
Prizes/Screenings
  • Toronto International Film Festival (2019)
    Best Canadian Short Nominee
    Palm Springs International ShortFest (2020)
    Best MidnightShort Award Nominee
  • PÖFF Black Nights (2020)
    Best International Short Nominee
    Sheena’s Place x TIFF community screening (2021)
  • Short of the Week
Reviews
‘It’s Nothing is a…haunting film dealing with eating disorders in a very creative way that mixes realistic psychology insight with horror to maximize its impact’
- Short of the Week @ TIFF

Your Mother and I

2016
Comedy/Drama
13 minutes
Johnna's Dad changed the world. Or so he says. But Johnna and her dad can't seem to connect, each growing more and more frustrated, revolving around one another in their own orbits.

Based on the short story by Dave Eggers
Credits
Director, Writer, Producer
Festivals Include
  • Vancouver International Film Festival
    Cucalorus International Film Festival
  • Seattle International Film Festival
  • Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival
Prizes/Screenings
  • Toronto International Film Festival (2016)
    Best Canadian Short Nominee
    London Short Film Festival (2017)
    Best British Short Winner, Best Female Director Nominee
  • London Critics’ Circle (2018)
    Best Short Film Nominee
  • BFI London Film Festival (2016)
    Short Film Award Nominee
    Short of the Week
    Disney + Europe
Reviews
“Maguire puts side by side two different worlds. The absurdity of the storytelling is juxtaposed with heavier topics, such as deep human pain. In effect, Your Mother and I is able to live in both spaces—the happy and the sad— without pitting them against one another”
– Short of the Week

OTHER PROJECTS

Stupid Co

Anna is also working with Kyle Greenberg under the guise of Stupid Co on found footage feature GALICIA! Shot on location in Galicia in September 2023.

Their previous short films, HI! YOU ARE CURRENTLY BEING RECORDED and FRENCH LESSONS can be seen at international festivals around the world.

More info at  www.stupidco.biz
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