Disciplines: Film/Video – feature

Anna Zamecka

Disciplines: Film/Video – feature
Residencies: 2025

Anna Zamecka is a writer and director whose films blur the line between fiction and documentary. Her work has been exhibited at many international festivals and venues. Zamecka’s acclaimed feature-length debut, Communion, premiered in Locarno in 2016, receiving a Critics’ Week Award, and the European Film Award for Best European Documentary of 2017. It was also shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards. While at MacDowell she will work on the script for her next hybrid feature film Sun.

Studios

Banks

Anna Zamecka worked in the Banks studio.

Banks, an ell on the north end of the Lodge dormitory, was first used as an artist’s studio in 1970. Since then, it has played host to an extraordinary list of writers working in several disciplines. In all seasons, Fellows have enjoyed the pastoral view through the French doors facing a field…

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