CAA Signs Writer & Director Anu Valia
Anu Valia, a writer and director, has signed with CAA for representation. She is known for her award-winning short film and various television directing credits. Valia's debut feature film premiered at SXSW in 2024 and has received critical acclaim.
- ▪Anu Valia has signed with CAA for representation.
- ▪Her short film Lucia, Before and After won the U.S. Fiction Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017.
- ▪Valia's debut feature, We Strangers, premiered at SXSW in 2024 and won top prizes at various film festivals.
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Anu Valia Sela Shiloni EXCLUSIVE: Writer and director Anu Valia has signed with CAA for representation. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Valia’s short film Lucia, Before and After won the U.S. Fiction Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. Her TV directing credits include Steve Carell’s HBO series Rooster, Apple TV+’s hit Shrinking, from Bill Lawrence, Jason Segal, and Brett Goldstein, Disney+ and Marvel’s She-Hulk, FX’s Adults, HBO Max’s Sex and the City sequel series And Just Like That…, the Ted Danson-starrer A Man on the Inside at Netflix, and Apple TV’s The Afterparty. Additionally, she is the executive producer and pilot director for Apple TV+’s Big Door Prize, which ran for two seasons.
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