Annie Kaempfer is a writer and director whose work has screened at festivals nationwide including Atlanta, Big Sky, Mill Valley and Woods Hole. Her feature debut, The Falconer, aired on PBS’ America Reframed in 2021 after winning Special Jury Prize at Cinema on the Bayou, Best Environmental Feature at BendFilm, and the 1st Place Storyteller’s Award at Destiny City.  A Spike Lee Fellowship recipient, Annie graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with an MFA in Film and Television. She brings a collaborative spirit, devotion to aesthetics, and focus on real-world impact to all her film projects. Annie serves on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital’s and has consulted for Ford Foundation, JustFilms and FotoDC.  Annie was born in Washington DC and lived in London and Maine before settling in Brooklyn with a lawyer/musician, one small child, and overly exuberant rescue Saint Bernard.