Anna Biller is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed the feature films Viva (2007) and The Love Witch (2016).

[3][4] Biller was born in Los Angeles[5] to a Japanese-American mother who is a fashion designer and a Caucasian father who is a visual artist.

Lane Relyea of Artforum International wrote "the film's humor and graceful perplexity may not have caused any sudden shifts in the local fault lines but did crack a glorious smile on this audience member's face.

"[15] In 2001, she directed two short films: The Hypnotist, a melodrama written by her frequent collaborator Jared Sanford,[9] and A Visit from the Incubus, a Western horror musical.

[18] Reason magazine called Viva an "uncannily precise rendition of the look, sound, mood, and arch dialogue" of seventies sexploitation films, with "high-key, pseudo-Technicolor lighting and spare, colorful set design.

[21] The film took Biller seven years to complete because of her attention to detail in directing, writing, costume and set design, and work with her cinematographer.

[30] Bluebeard's Castle was listed as one of the best fiction books of 2023 by The Telegraph, who said it was, "A stylised retelling of the old fable that mixes self-reference and gaudy excess...the sex, death and pricy cognac are of a wildly enjoyable piece.

"[31] The Times Literary Supplement also praised it, calling it "Both a fantasy and a nightmare, with the film-maker Biller employing the same sense of celluloid artifice and lusciously heightened reality that characterized her retro horror masterpiece The Love Witch.