Anna Baumgarten
Writing
Biography
Anna is a Los Angeles based writer, actor, and producer. She hails from southeastern Michigan where she grew up lakeside with her parents and three siblings. She studied Film & TV at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a concentration in screenwriting and business and graduated with a BA in 2015.
Known For
When Jane fails her final college class, she returns home to her parent's lake house where she comes to terms with the confusing trauma that derailed her senior year.
Disfluency
Two grocery store employees have an unexpected, helium-fueled encounter with a late-night customer.
Balloon Animals
Disfluency is a short film that follows a young woman through her daily life, from her passive usage of the phrase "I'm sorry," to her being raped and the emotional aftermath. All the while, this habit of apologizing eerily stays with her throughout, begging the question: have we let rape become a cultural disfluency - an expected, almost unnoticeable interruption-in our culture?
Disfluency
Julie has an anxiety attack when she discovers all of her building's laundry machines are broken, and reluctantly accepts help from her neighbor Kris.