Hailing from Michigan, Anna Baumgarten is a Los Angeles–based writer, director, and speaker who tells heartwarming, heart-wrenching stories. Her Austin Film Festival Jury Award–winning feature, Disfluency, is now available (Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy). She is a Short to Feature Lab and US in Progress alum. Baumgarten’s dark comedy Balloon Animals is her Sundance Film Festival debut.