“When we get, give. When you learn, teach”
 – Dr. Maya Angelou

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1:1 CONSULTING & COACHING
Need advice on fundraising, grant writing or pitching for your documentary project? Or have questions about the art, craft, and business of documentary filmmaking and navigating a career in the documentary space? Let's talk! 

Anayansi is available for one-on-one sessions to answer your questions and guide your next steps in documentary filmmaking. She can also review materials and provide useful feedback.

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MASTER CLASSES & WORKSHOPS 
Anayansi is a valued and sought after public speaker and educator for documentary film production and photography. Her areas of expertise include:

  • Documentary Story Development

  • Grant Writing

  • Production

  • Directing

  • Ethical Filmmaking / Participant Care

  • Distribution and Outreach

Her introduction into the teaching world began in 2009 when Anayansi was invited to be a Film Expert for American Film Showcase, a film diplomacy program established by the State Department and run by the USC Film School, where she remains engaged to this day. 

Since then, Anayansi has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Theater Film and Television Graduate Program where she taught Advanced Documentary Directing. She was also Visiting Professor at Chapman University’s Film School where she taught Investigative Documentary Production. At Cal State Northridge School of Journalism she taught Spanish Media Production. She also taught Documentary Production in Paris, France at the École de la Cité Film School, founded by Luc Besson.

She has taught documentary filmmaking workshops to emerging and established filmmakers including children, teenagers, college students and adults. She has worked in 5 continents around the world including Venezuela, China, Jordan, Mozambique, Burma, Angola, Nicaragua, France, Colombia, Peru, Bosnia, Singapore, Panama, Honduras, Italy, Costa Rica, and Paraguay.

 

CREATIVE ADVISOR & MENTOR
Anayansi is available as a Mentor and Creative Advisor for individuals and group programs. 

Anayansi has served as a Sundance Advisor-in-Residence, a mentor to graduate students during the production of Waterschool, the first documentary produced by UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. She was also a Lead Creative Mentor for Film Independent's Documentary Lab and a Creative Mentor for their Global Media Makers Program. She is currently a mentor for the Firelight Media Documentary Lab and the Sisters in Cinema Fellowship Program.

From 2008 to 2018, Anayansi ran her own non-profit, Impacto Project, with the mission to bring visual arts training and media literacy to youth living in remote areas of developing countries. Various Impacto Project programs took place around the world including a photography workshop at an orphanage for deaf children in Yangon, Burma; a documentary workshop and screening at a farming community in the mountains of Arequipa, Peru; photography classes in the predominantly indigenous island of Bocas del Toro, Panama; and a documentary production retreat for young female community leaders in the mountain community of Matagalpa, Nicaragua.