Anu Valia is an Indiana-born, New York-schooled filmmaker whose award-winning short films have screened across the country and abroad. Her short film, LUCIA, BEFORE AND AFTER, won the Jury Prize for US Fiction at Sundance Film Festival. As a TV director, Anu's directing credits include: THE OTHER TWO (Comedy Central), AWKWAFINA IS NORA FROM QUEENS (Comedy Central), MIXED-ISH (ABC), NEVER HAVE I EVER (Netflix, produced by Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher), LOVE SIMON (Hulu), LOVE LIFE (HBOMax, produced by Paul Feig), ROBBIE (Comedy Central) and AP BIO (NBC's Peacock). She is currently directing a new pilot for NBC. Anu is developing her first feature, WE STRANGERS, which is supported by Cinereach, Sundance Institute, Women in Film, Tribeca Institute, IFP, and Hamptons Screenwriters Lab.