Anastasia Foss
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Sound Department
- Additional Crew
Anastasia Foss is an aspiring filmmaker. She has studied filmmaking at
the New York Film Academy. Prior to choosing her career path as a
filmmaker, Anastasia was interested in acting. She appeared in a few of
her high school plays like Midsummer Nights Dream by William
Shakespeare where she played a lead character Demitrius, as well as,
attending classes every Saturday at Lee Strasberg Theater and Film
Institute during her high school career. She also appeared as an extra
in several TV shows like Castle and movies like The Runaways. After
graduating high school, Anastasia decided to continue her study in New
York City. She attended Pace University where she majored in marketing
and minored in Film and Photography. After spending 2 years on her own
in the Big Apple, Anastasia decided to return to Los Angeles to
continue pursuing her career in the filmmaking industry, only this time
with a clear vision for what she wanted to do. After spending a lot of
time in the Big Apple Anastasia realized her passion for capturing
images. She fell in love with her surroundings and realized that her
dream was not in business or being the star in front of the camera but
that she wanted to be the creator and the artist who brought people
together to make something unforgettable. Her easy going personality
works well in a team environment. Born in the Republic of Kazakhstan,
Anastasia was a creative child from the beginning. She came from a
middle class family and every penny counted, so when her mother
enrolled her in a dance class at the at of 5, Anastasia put her all
into it. Appearing in competitions and performing in front of the
president of the Republic of Kazakhstan. When Anastasia and her mother
moved to the United States, Anastasia was only 12. She knew not a word
of English but when her mother enrolled her in a school where there was
no ESL program, Anastasia knew that it was up to her to make her life
easier. When they arrived in America they only had $50 with them,
seeing as they had no money Anastasia knew that she had to make it
happen on her own. Picking up any thrown out newspapers or free
magazines, Anastasia spent long days translating and trying to
understand. In less than a year, Anastasia held a conversation well in
English and was therefore sent to a boarding school where ESL was
offered to help her perfect the grammar. There, is where she discovered
her passion for creating. Her first ever play she was in was the
Pirates of Penzance where she played a mere pirate but fell in love
with the creative process and what came out as the final product after
all the hard work.