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Ideas come to life in many ways. In Annika’s world inspiration often needs paint, but sometimes an idea demands screentime.
Screenwriting
Annika Connor is an Artist, Activist, SAG-AFTRA Actor, and Screenwriter.
A modern-day Renaissance Woman, Annika Connor is primarily known for her watercolor and oil paintings though she also writes screenplays, sketch comedy, and acts in Film and TV. These seemingly disparate mediums, link in her imagination as one aspect of her Studio Life informs another.
Whether painting or writing, Connor’s art uses strong symbolism, passionate imagery, and humor to ignite the imagination.
When writing Connors pulls heavily from her dreams which often fuel her ideas. In screenwriting, she uses comedy, art, and real-world experience to question global issues and ethics, while exploring hot topics that unite humanity and/or divide us.
Connor’s life as a Painter is also a source of inspiration with some characters and situations inspired by her art world experiences.
As a multiple-disciplined artist, Annika likes to say that “some ideas need paint, while others demand screen time. The trick is to know which medium to use to best convey the intentions.”
Annika Connor is an Upright Citizens Brigade certified Improv actor. She also received her BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied Painting & Performance.
Additionally Connor has studied comedy writing and performance at the Magnet Theater, the Peoples Improv Theater, the Blueprint Screenwriting Group and at the Nantucket Film Festival and Almanack Screenwriters Sessions.
Outlined below are a few of Annika’s screenplays that tell stories best told by Film or TV.
WorthIt
In a post-pandemic America, Dr. Marion Stripe, a brilliant scientist with a God complex, searches for a “cure” to mortality while a vigilante serial killer is on a murder spree targeting the nation’s most intelligent minds.
A zany and darkly comedic Sci-Fi, WorthIt is a feature-length screenplay set in New York City that takes the reader into a world of new medical possibilities and invites one to imagine what wild ideas the near future may hold.
As a dual citizen of both Sweden and the USA, Annika was especially honored to have her script WorthIt selected as a Finalist at the Stockholm Film & Television Festival in the category of Best Feature Script.
Since submissions are blind, and there was no reference to her Swedish heritage mentioned, Annika felt extra glad to know her ideas connected to a Swedish audience.
New York Screenwriting Awards
Thanks, New York Screenwriting Awards, for selecting my screenplay WorthIt for an Honorable Mention and giving me my 9th laurel for my screenplay WorthIt!
Annika Connor is happy to announce that her script WorthIt was chosen as the Official Selection for the First Time Screenwriter (Feature) script competition at the Chicago Script Awards.
Annika Connor was thrilled to have her screenplay WorthIt selected as a Quarterfinalist, in the 2023 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards - Diversity Initiative (iv).
Vail Screenplay Contest
Annika Connor was happy to have her screenplay WorthIt honored with a Quarter-Finalist award in Vail, Colorado at the 2023 Vail Screenplay Contest.
Filmmatic Sci-Fi Fantasy Awards
Annika Connor was honored to receive a Quarter-Finalist award for her Screenplay WorthIt in the 2023 Los Angeles Filmmatic Sci-Fi Fantasy Awards.
The Swedish International Film Festival
Annika is delighted to announce that the screenplay WorthIt has been chosen as an official Nominee in the Swedish International Film Festival.
As a dual Swedish-American citizen, Annika is honored by this opportunity and is thrilled her script has connected with an international audience.
WorthIt in ATL
Annika Connor is excited to have WorthIt, her feature-length screenplay, as an official selection at the 2022 Atlanta Women’s Film Festival.
The Atlanta Women's Film Festival is a live screening of short films and a table-read event that takes place in Atlanta, GA. This event promotes female filmmakers, directors, writers, producers, actors, and female-centered storylines to the Atlanta film community. There will be live screening blocks of films with Q&As with the filmmakers, table reads for the screenplays in our competition, live panels with influential women in the film industry, and networking events for anyone that would like to attend.
Tickets to attend are available at https://cinemalife.tix.page/e/atlanta-womens-film-festival-2022
Horror/Thriller/
Fantasy
The WorthIt script was honored to be a Semi-Finalist selection in the 2022 Creative World Awards in the category of Horror/Thriller/Fantasy.
Party Politics
Party Politics tells the story of Dizzy and Miles, two political opposites who share a love-at-first-sight moment and spend a magical night together, only to wake up the next morning to discover they have slept with their political nemesis.
An ensemble cast drama with comedic undertones, Party Politics is a television series that asks: In an America divided by political debate, can laughter and sexual chemistry build a bridge to understanding? Will love triumph in this war between desire and idealism, or will opposing views build an invisible wall firmly separating star-crossed lovers?
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