Anna Kis started her filmmaking career in 2002. After a decade of teaching, translation, and journalism, and a PhD course in Renaissance and Baroque English Literature at ELTE, she graduated at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, as a director and film editor. She was the student of Péter Gothár and Ildikó Enyedi. She has directed shorts and observational documentaries which have won several Best Documentary awards in Hungarian festivals (Home Paradise, Not About Family). She has also been active as an editor and story editor, primarily of observational documentaries, as well as concert shows for TV; and she does mentoring in documentary development (Verzio DocLab). Recently she has been active as the story editor of Sarajevo award winning Fairy Garden, editing Dear Helen by Diana Groó, co-directing and editing 80 Angry Journalists and shooting her own feature-length documentary Practices in Harmony.