Anna Wren Fry is a director and screenwriter based in Chicago. Her films explore the tender, turbulent realities of being a girl, examining how young women relate to themselves, their friends, and the spaces they inhabit. She is drawn to the tension between the delicate, intimate aspects of the feminine experience and the messy, often harrowing emotional truths that accompany it. Deeply driven by aesthetic, Anna weaves fashion, design, and dreamlike atmospheres into her filmmaking, using visual detail to reflect and amplify her characters’ psyches. She finds constant inspiration in her own experiences, the lives of her friends, and the textures of the world around her.

Having grown up on professional sets as an actor, Anna approaches directing with a nuanced understanding of performance, creating a collaborative, supportive environment where actors can inhabit vulnerability and complexity.

Anna’s work meditates on the playful and the gritty, creating landscapes where dreams and reality collide and her characters’ vivid, contradictory inner lives emerge.