Annette Apitz was born in Germany and grew up in the United States. She received her B.A. at McGill University in Montreal and her M.F.A. in Film from Columbia University in New York City. She received the New Line Cinema Award at Columbia University, and her short films won awards and screened at film festivals such as Tribeca, Hamptons, Florida, Austin, BBC and Palm Springs, among many others. Her films have been shown at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, the Baltimore Museum of Art, on PBS, HBO Latin America, WB, Amazon and Hulu. Annette wrote and directed the feature film Fighting Fish, which premiered at the 2010 Nashville Film Festival, where it won Honorable Mention in the New Director’s Competition. It also won the Best Feature Award at the LA Femme Film Festival, and the Best Actress Award at New York VisionFest. Her screenplay adaptation of the novel The Homemaker was invited to the 2018 Stowe Story Lab. Annette works as a writer, producer and film professor in New York.

The Forger — When two sisters return to their ancestral family home on the outskirts of Berlin after their father’s death, they are confronted with the history of their family in 1940s Germany, the memories of their own troubled childhood, and the dark underbelly of a seemingly idyllic summer.