Anna Rose Holmer

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| caption = Holmer at the 2022 Directors' Fortnight

| birth_name = Anna Rose Farrell

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| birth_place = Pawling, New York, U.S.

| alma_mater = New York University Tisch School of the Arts

| occupation = Filmmaker

| years_active = 2015–present

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Anna Rose Holmer (née Farrell) is an American director and writer. She began her career in the camera department before directing her feature debut The Fits (2015).{{cite magazine | url=http://www.vogue.com/13442440/the-fits-anna-rose-holmer-interview/ | title=Anna Rose Holmer on Directing The Fits and the Power of Contagion |magazine=Vogue | accessdate=21 August 2016 |first=Julia |last=Felsenthal | date=2 June 2016 | archive-date=20 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220122215/http://www.vogue.com/13442440/the-fits-anna-rose-holmer-interview/ | url-status=dead }} She collaborated with Saela Davis on the Irish film God's Creatures (2022).

Early life

Holmer was born in Pawling, New York. She was raised by her mother, an art teacher, and her father, a piano tuner.{{cite magazine|last1=Brown|first1=Emma|title=Anna Rose Holmer's Allegorical Adolescence|date=2 June 2016 |url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/anna-rose-holmer-the-fits|accessdate=21 August 2016 |magazine=Interview}} She attended Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie. She was introduced to film as a teenager through a photography workshop in Maine.{{Cite journal|url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/life/2016/02/26/pawling-brooklyn-sundance/80993612/|title=From Pawling to Brooklyn to Sundance|journal=Poughkeepsie Journal|first=John W.|last=Barry|date=26 February 2016|accessdate=22 May 2022}} She went on to study Film with a concentration in Cinematography at NYU Tisch School of the Arts,{{cite web|title=Anna Rose Holmer|date=23 July 2015 |url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/people/anna-rose-holmer/#.V7kXlSMrIzU|accessdate=21 August 2016 |website=Filmmaker}} graduating in 2007.{{Cite web|url=https://www.moviemaker.com/the-fits-anna-rose-holmer/|title=Film School Alumni Advice: The Fits Director Anna Rose Holmer|website=Movie Maker|date=2 June 2016 |accessdate=22 May 2022}}

Career

In 2014 Holmer pitched the idea of her film The Fits to Biennale College Cinema. She was awarded a grant and proceeded to make her film on a microbudget. The film premiered at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival in 2015 and then went on to play at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired for distribution by Oscilloscope Laboratories.{{cite web|title=The Fits - Anna Rose Holmer|url=http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/archive/72nd-festival/line-up/off-sel/bcc/the-fits.html|accessdate=21 August 2016}}

In 2018 Holmer directed the music video for James Blake's "My Willing Heart" featuring Natalie Portman,{{cite web |last1=Wadsworth |first1=John |title=Natalie Portman is playing a bull rider in Anna Rose Holmer's next film |url=https://lwlies.com/articles/natalie-portman-anna-rose-holmer-bronco-belle/ |accessdate=22 October 2018 |website=Little White Lies}} and in 2022 she co-directed (with Saela Davis) the Irish film God's Creatures, starring Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Aisling Franciosi.

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Category:Living people

Category:Film producers from New York (state)

Category:Screenwriters from New York (state)

Category:American women film directors

Category:American women screenwriters

Category:People from Pawling, New York

Category:New York University alumni

Category:Film directors from New York (state)

Category:American women film producers

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:21st-century American women