ANNETTE APITZ received her B.A. at McGill University in Montreal and her M.F.A from Columbia University's Film School. Her short films have screened at the Hamptons Film Festival, the Palm Springs Short Film Festival, MOMA and on PBS and HBO Latin America. For her thesis film, A River in India, Apitz received the New Line Cinema Award at Columbia. Apitz is currently developing her first feature film, Fighting Fish, and is completing her script Phoenix, a thriller.