Anna Boden

Director

Biography

USA

Born in 1976 in Berkeley, California, Anna Boden is an American film director, cinematographer, editor, and screenwriter best known as the co-writer of the 2006 film Half Nelson. She is also famous for her collaborations with fellow filmmaker Ryan Fleck. While studying film at NYU, Boden met Ryan Fleck on the set of a student film. Soon they began dating and decided to collaborate. Together they made the short documentaries Have You Seen This Man? and Young Rebels before they wrote and he directed the short film Gowanus, Brooklyn, a sample feature aiming to attract potential financiers to their undeveloped script, Half Nelson. The short won a prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. Boden and Fleck then made the film Half Nelson starring Ryan Gosling in 2006. In April 2017, Boden and Fleck were hired to direct the Marvel Studios film Captain Marvel. The film was released in March 2019 and became a box office success. They also directed the first two episodes and produced the television show Mrs. America. Biography Source

Filmography

Have You Seen This Man? (2003)
Young Rebels (2005)
Sugar (2008)
It’s Kind of a Funny Story (2010)
The Big C (2011)
Mississippi Grind (2015)
The Affair (2015)
Billions (2016 - 2017)
Room 104 (2017)
Captain Marvel (2019)
Mrs. America (2020)

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