ANNA GUTTO's feature film debut PARADISE HIGHWAY, starring Academy Award winners JULIETTE BINOCHE and MORGAN FREEMAN, as well as Cameron Monaghan, Frank Grillo and breakout star Hala Finley, premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2022 at the Piazza Grande. The film was hailed by Variety as “a singularly promising debut for a first-time feature filmmaker.”

 

Gutto is Concept Director on the upcoming series ESCAPING BOLIVIA, most recently invited to the Series Manis Buyers Upfront (Concept Director is similar to a combination of pilot director and producing director in the US). The series is set to premiere fall of 2025.

 

She started her career in the theater, first in Europe and then in New York, earning accolades such as “universally excellent” in The New York Times for her work on Nobel Laureate Jon Fosse’s US debut production NIGHT SINGS ITS SONGS. Gutto went on to produce more US premieres of Jon Fosse together with Sarah Cameron Sunde under their company Oslo Elsewhere, establishing them as the Artistic Director duo bringing Jon Fosse’s work to US audiences. During her years in the Big Apple, Anna also produced several concerts at Carnegie Hall and was a consultant for the HBO series BOARDWALK EMPIRE. She received her MFA in Film Directing at Columbia University, where she graduated with Honors in 2016.

 

Gutto was one of the directors on Season 1 of Netflix success HOME FOR CHRISTMAS, and her short films have won multiple festival awards, among them Best Director and Best Ensemble Cast. Her short comedy MOMMY HEIST was broadcast by France Televisions' channel FR3 and A LUCKY MAN is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award recipient and is in the screening catalogue of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. 

 

Working in a variety of genres, for Anna, storytelling is about connection – characters connecting with each other, and stories connecting with an audience. And it needs to be entertaining! Anna is a dual US and Norway/EU citizen.

 

Anna is represented by Grandview/Untitled in the US and Albatros in Scandinavia.