Anne
Zinn-Justin

Anne is currently developing a fiction feature film, Najma and Salomé, produced by Clémentine Mourão-Ferreira (So-Cle). DreamAgo 2026 Favourite, it was awarded at the Alliance 4 Development Programme at the Locarno International Film Festival 2025, and developed through the Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine / Hessen 2025 residency. She is also writing a feature screenplay with Charlotte Junière: Praise for Slowness, a dystopian comedy, selected for the TANDEM development residency (supported by Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and by Pictanovo (Hauts de France region).

Her latest short film, a rural survival thriller, Bestiary, had its world premiere at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in February 2025. She previously wrote and directed five fiction short films broadcast on television and screened at numerous festivals in France and abroad.

Anne directed The Hunchback's Peak by Slawomir Mrozek at the Petit Théâtre de Clichy, and writes for theatre. Her play Three Billion Years to Go, selected by the Écrivains Associés du Théâtre, was staged at Théâtre 13. Her theatrical monologue Figures of the World Before, Hope for the World After was published by Éditions du Cygne.

Anne trained as an engineer and worked in human genetics research. She studied acting and directing with Jack Waltzer and Jack Garfein (Actors Studio), and trained in screenwriting at La Fémis, as well as through master classes with Scott Myers, John Truby, Robert McKee and Nicola Lusardi.

Anne also makes films and teasers from theatre productions and one-woman shows. She works as a script doctor and has led writing and on-camera acting workshops.