Anita Doron (born June 3, 1974) is a Hungarian-Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, author, and a 2010 TED Fellow.
[3] Her short poem about the sea made a strong impression on her mother, which encouraged Doron to continue composing poetry.
Doron and her friend attempted to document how it was being polluted, as well as, the community's thoughts on the subject, but the only people who cooperated with the teens were drunks roaming the banks of the river.
Doron was eventually summoned to the city's deputy mayor's office where she was advised to abandon her project or her parents would lose their jobs.
In a blog post on her personal website, Doron explains that she does not think that her film was ruined by the "office of the deputy mayor," but because of problems she had with the exposure.
[3] Doron eventually illegally fled the USSR and immigrated to the Middle East where she settled for a short period of time.
Not a Fish Story was also nominated for the Best Short 2003 Banff Rookie Award and won third place in the Best Comedy category at ZoieFest 2003.
Between 2005 and 2009, Doron directed multiple music videos in collaboration with TWOTHREEFIVEFILMS, a film production company based in Toronto.
[8] Acting as screenwriter, director, and cinematographer, she shot the film in a "guerilla style" over the course of 52 days with a very small crew and budget.
Casting Sarah Harmer in a key supporting role, Doron cites this film as "the beginning of [her] love for non-traditional feature filmmaking with non professional actors".
The Canadian Film Centre Media Lab recruited Doron in 2007 to work on Late Fragment, a project developed within the institution's Interactive Narrative Feature Program.
[10] Working in collaboration with two other filmmakers (Daryl Cloran and Mateo Guez), Doron wrote and directed one of the three parts of Late Fragment.
The productions she directed were Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers) at the Subway, Sebastian Grainger at El Mocambo and Damian Abraham (Fucked Up) at Rotate This.
Tony Dekker (Great Lake Swimmers) at the Subway premiered worldwide at the Toronto International Film Festival.
[3] Doron cast her cousin in the lead role and saw this film as an opportunity to experiment "on tiny Arts Council funding".
After reading the Richard Van Camp novel, Doron chose to write the screenplay for The Lesser Blessed because she was interested in the idea of a person alienated and living on the margins of society.
[12] Van Camp's hometown was the last stop on a five-day trip where Doron visited various Native communities in search of the boy who would play Larry Sole, the main character.
During her year-long mandate, she worked on a film called Talk Derby to Me with other TED fellows, including Jessica Green.
[1] Since 2014, she has been writing a science fiction graphic novel named Noli Timere in collaboration with Jessica Green, a former TED Fellow.
[18] Sebastian Grainger at the El Mocambo Damian Abraham (Fucked Up) at Rotate This "Oleander" "Sandy Eyes" In 2003, Doron was placed at number 7 on Wendy Banks' "Top 10 Canadians to Look Out For" in Now Magazine.