Anne Hu is a Taiwanese American, award-winning director, writer, editor, and actress. Her directing focus is in narrative film and tv. She creates provocative, dark comedies and heartfelt, poetic dramas.
Hu was featured in The Hollywood Reporter for making the 2020 Alice List for Emerging Female Filmmakers who Have Not Yet Directed a Feature. She participated in Netflix’s first-ever Original Series Directors Development Program from 2020 to 2022. She shadowed director Marc Webb on Netflix’s The Society. Hu is also a fellow of the 2019 Space on Ryder Farm Film Lab.
She has directed and written award-winning short films. Her short Lunchbox, currently on the festival circuit, has been accepted into 25 film festivals and counting and has won 5 awards to date including Cleveland International Film Festival’s Best Ohio Short. Her previous short Cake was accepted into 38 festivals, earned 9 awards, and was featured in The Washington Post.
Hu has also worked as a Senior Editor for the last 10 years cutting trailers and promos for The Last of Us, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and more.
As an actor, she has trained at T. Schreiber Studio, The Barrow Group, and The Freeman Studio.
Hu hopes by creating personal and honest stories that reflect her struggles and intersectional identities, she can provide catharsis for audiences as well as inspire them to regard marginalized voices with their whole humanity.