Annabelle Attanasio is a writer and director based in Brooklyn. Her first feature, MICKEY AND THE BEAR, had a critically acclaimed premiere at SXSW where it was described as ‘a sharp, affecting film that’s brimming with darkness and hope, every instant of it vividly alive,’ by The Hollywood Reporter, and named one of Variety’s Best Movies of SXSW.

The Washington Post called the film ‘one of the most exciting breakout films of the year’, and RogerEbert.com sang the movie’s praises, calling it ‘an almost perfectly realized drama that feels as if it was time-warped in from 40 or 50 years ago, in the tradition of great American cinema chamber pieces like ‘The Last Picture Show,’ ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore,’ ‘The Great Santini,’ and more recently, ‘Winter’s Bone.’’