Bio

Anita Doron is an award-winning Canadian-Hungarian writer, director and story editor. She was born in Transcarpathia, a little known land of nomadic ghosts, barley mush and apricot brandy. She was one of the youngest published poets in the former USSR and grew up in a family of high altitude mountaineers. At 12, Anita’s first film – an environmental protest piece – raised the ire of Soviet bureaucracy and set her on a path to cinema.

Anita’s movies have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, SXSW, the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the Future of Cinema Salon at the Cannes Film Festival.  As writer and director, her features films include, The End of Silence, Late Fragment, Europa East, Mystico Fantastico! and The Lesser Blessed. The Lesser Blessed received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Anita wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated animated feature film, The Breadwinner. Anita was nominated for an Annie Award, a Humanitas Prize, and won a Canadian Screen Award for her work on the screenplay.