Anna Baumgarten

Bio

Anna Baumgarten hails from the Michigan mitten and is a Los Angeles-based Writer/Director/Producer and TV Development Consultant. Anna has been a core development team member at Pietown Productions, Mona Scott-Young’s Monami Entertainment, and Rob Dyrdek’s Superjacket Productions where she developed unscripted content for MTV, Nickelodeon, Vh1, WeTV, BET, CMT, and HGTV. As an independent filmmaker, Anna’s debut feature film Disfluency won the Jury Award at the Austin Film Festival and several other regional festivals and is the recipient of the Duplass brothers’ Hometown Heroes “Oh Shit!” Grant and a selection of 10th US in Progress Wroclaw. Her short film Line Dry premiered at the Oscar Qualifying Palm Springs International ShortFest in 2020. She is the media partner of SafeBAE, an organization founded by the young survivors in Netflix’s Audrie & Daisy which works to provide sexual assault awareness and prevention education to middle, high school, and college students.