Filmmaking

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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.

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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
Anna Maguire: Writer, Director, Producer, Actor
Festivals
  • SXSW Sydney
  • Fantasia Film Festival
  • Chattanooga Film Festival
  • Santa Fe International FilmFestival
  • Oak Cliff Film Festival
Prizes
Anna Maguire: Writer, Director, Producer, Actor
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

2024
Thriller
18 minutes
As a young woman realises her sexual needs have grown beyond her relationship with her boyfriend, a chance encounter allows her to take control of her fantasies.
Credits
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Festivals
  • 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
  • Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival (2018) Cinematic Achievement Award Winner
  • Flickers: Rhode Island International Film Festival (2019) Best Actress Award Winner
  • Underwire Film Festival (2018) Acting Award Nominee
  • Screenwriting Award Winner, Palm Springs Short Fest (2019)
  • 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 #PortraitofaLadyonFire’
- Curzon Film

Your Mother and I

2016
Fiction
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.
Credits
Director, Writer, Producer
Festivals
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  • Seattle International Film Festival
  • Rhode Island International Film Festival
Prizes
  • 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
  • TIFF Celebrity Shorts Programme (2017), Short of the Week
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

Projects in development

External Neighbors

In 2024 Anna was awarded a Telefilm Talent to Watch grant for her debut feature EXTERNAL NEIGHBOURS set between the desert of New Mexico and the inside of the protagonist’s mind. She and her team begin principal photography in 2025.

An Empty Space

She is in development on other film projects, including AN EMPTY SPACE which was selected to take part in Le Groupe Ouest’s Less is More development programme (2021) and BFI NETWORK’s early development programme (2019) as well as Sundance’s inaugural Collective Kitchen (2021).

She was commissioned to write a new draft through Producer Pietro Greppi’s BFI’s Vision Award funding (2022) and in 2023 the film took part in TIFF x Ontario Create’s International financing forum as well as the Féstival du Nouveau Cinéma’s Nouveau Marché.

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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