Anna Maria Hozian is the writer/director of the Other People's Children web series, which has been making its way around the world in over twenty festivals ranging from Rio to Bilboa to Melbourne to Seoul. Anna was also one of twelve women chosen for the inaugural year of the New York Women in Film and Television’s Writers Lab funded by Meryl Streep. Her winning script Anchor Baby is currently under option with Lynmar Productions. Anna’s scripts have placed in numerous contests from the Academy's Nicholl Fellowship to the Page International Screenwriting Awards, the Samuel Goldwyn Awards as well at here at Austin. Her next venture is to direct one of her short scripts entitled, The Pool. Anna teaches screenwriting at the DePaul University’s School of Cinematic Arts.