Biography

Genevieve Anderson is a filmmaker and entrepreneur. Her short films have played at over 100 festivals worldwide, winning awards in Berlin, Seattle, Chicago, Rhode Island, Palm Springs, among many others, and have been broadcast on ARTE and IFC. DUSTWUN, her first feature, came from her experience living 30 miles from the US/Mexican border. It won Best Indie Feature at the AZ Int'l Film Festival, Socially Relevant Film Fest, and Faith in Film Fest. She is a Rockefeller Media Artist Grant recipient and an Annenberg Fellow, and earned her MA from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She was PM and Producer for world-renowned video artist Bill Viola for 15 years, producing work for the Biennale Venice, St. Paul Cathedral, London, The Deutsche Guggenheim, The Hamad International Airport, Qatar, among many others. Her academic work is published on Artcore Journal. In 2015 she left LA to raise her son on an 8-acre farm in Tubac, Arizona where she taught in the School of Film & TV at the University of Arizona. Arizona Public Media's spotlight on Genevieve's work, Forming the Formless, was nominated for an Emmy in 2017. She received a New Works Grant from the Tucson Arts Council in 2018 to develop Isolating Anima - a project on artificial intelligence and the creative impulse. She moved back to LA in 2019. She is founder of WUNZ, a mission-based apparel company working with the Los Angeles Mission to address the homeless crisis in LA.
- IMDb mini biography by: Genevieve Anderson