OUR TEAM
■ SARA GUNNARSDOTTIR
Sara Gunnarsdóttir is an Oscar-nominated Icelandic director and artist known for animation, music videos, and film artwork. She worked on The Diary of a Teenage Girl and HBO’s The Case Against Adnan Syed. While earning her BFA in Iceland, she performed with the electro-punk band Donna Mess. She later earned an MFA at CalArts, where her thesis film The Pirate of Love was a Student Academy Award nominee. She directed My Year of Dicks for FX, which won SXSW awards and earned her a 2023 Oscar nomination. Her work has screened at AFI Fest, SXSW, Annecy, and Telluride.
■ JEANETTE JEANENNE
Jeanette Jeanenne is a Panamanian-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She co-founded GLAS Animation, a nonprofit promoting independent animation in the U.S. She directed the horror series Woman in the Book and has written and directed shorts for FX’s CAKE, including Medington Hills, Violence.Sex.Language.Gore, and RULES. She has produced award-winning films like Girl in the Yellow Dress, Drone, and My Year of Dicks. In 2020, she received the Annie Awards’ June Foray Award for her impact on animation. Her clients include FX, Meta, Apple, Disney, Titmouse, Netflix, and Amazon, and she has worked with Slamdance, Glamour, SNYDER, and Short of the Week.