Anna Sang Park

Anna Sang Park

Born in South Korea and raised in Philadelphia, PA, Anna Sang Park is an award-winning filmmaker. She is the writer and director of the short film Mrs. Cho which was nominated for Best Short Film at the 2019 Peekskill Film Festival. Mrs. Cho, a short film about an immigrant mother’s gambling addiction, has been part of the Official Selection at the Tide Film Festival in Brooklyn, the International Short Film Festival on Youth in Normandy, France and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Film Festival. Anna directed 5 seasons of the hit show Say Yes to the Dress and two of the spin off series for TLC/Discovery network.  She has produced and directed for the BBC, PBS, ABC, NBC, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, TLC, Discovery, Investigation Discovery, The History Channel, A&E, Lifetime Movie Network, TED Conferences and Theatre Communications Group (TCG) among others. She produced the narrative feature film, WALLABOUT, that won Best Film at the Bushwick Film Festival and Best Personal Narrative Film at the Manhattan Film Festival. WALLABOUT had a theatrical run at the legendary art house Cinema Saint-André des Arts in Paris, France.  Anna was the development producer on the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Loving Story, an HBO documentary based on the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia. She produced and directed 9 short documentaries for TCG’s Legacy Leaders of Color Video Project (LLCVP) highlighting groundbreaking theatre directors of color who fundamentally functioned as civil rights leaders. Anna has a BFA in Film from Emerson College where she was the co-recipient of the Arnon Milchan Grant. She is completing her MFA degree in Narrative Directing from Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema this May 2020. Anna is currently finishing two short films, Kyung-Hee and Appa Appa Appa, two installments in the Cho family trilogy. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, BGDM Brown Girls Doc Mafia and the FilmmakeHers.