Anna Kerrigan is a filmmaker with roots in California and New York City. COWBOYS, a Montana-set feature she wrote and directed starring Steve Zahn, Jillian Bell and Ann Dowd, premiered at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival where it won Best Screenplay for Kerrigan and Best Actor for Zahn. It has since gone on to garner awards at various festivals (Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at Newfest, Audience Award for Best Feature at Nashville Film Festival, Best Actor for Sasha Knight at Outfest) and is distributed domestically by Samuel Goldwyn. HOT SEAT, which she wrote and directed, premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. She also directed THE CHANCES, a digital series written by and starring two deaf actors, which also premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her Gotham-nominated comedic digital series THE IMPOSSIBILITIES (2015) follows the interwoven storylines of a magician and a daffy lesbian yogi and was licensed by Studio Plus (Canal) for international distribution. She was selected for the 2020 Warner Brothers Directing Workshop for Television, the 2016 Fox Global Directors Initiative for episodic directing, and is a Film Independent and Sundance Fellow (2016 New Voices, 2017 Episodic).  She has developed projects and made shorts for Refinery 29, Funny or Die and Amazon. Indiewire named her one of twenty female filmmakers to watch in 2020. Kerrigan is an alum of Stanford University.