Anna Zamecka is the director of Curated by KCAC, the Kurdistan Center for Arts and Culture’s division devoted to creative projects. In this role, she collaborates with artists and implements projects dedicated to elevating the arts in Kurdistan.

Anna is a writer and director whose films blur the line between fiction and documentary. Her work has been exhibited at many international festivals and venues. Anna’s acclaimed feature-length debut “Communion” premiered in Locarno in 2016 (Critics’ Week Award) and received over 40 awards, including the European Film Award for Best European Documentary of 2017. Additionally, it was shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature at the 91st Academy Awards (Oscars). Anna is currently preparing to enter production on her second feature film. 

Anna was a guest lecturer on documentary film at Harvard University, Dartmouth College and Rutgers University in the USA. She is a member of the European Film Academy and the Polish Film Academy and was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin program fellow in 2021. She is currently based between Erbil and her home in the primeval Białowieża Forest in Poland.