bio
Having grown up in the north of France, frame of three screenplays, Anaïs Venturi was a tv journalist when she switched to fiction in 2015 with Douai (1962). This unknown episode of the Franco-Algerian war is selected in 16 festivals.
After two short scripts selected at the Aubagne Festival (Growing Up, Elderly) she has co-writed and co-directed with Philip Matteaccioli in 2020 B&B 2.0 (Boucle d'Or 2.0 ) a 13 mn. family comedy distributed by Origine Films and broadcasted on OCS in 2022. The authors work then together to adapt it into a TV series.
About long feature, the modern melodrama Babybox is developed in Elie G. Abécéra's studio and shortlisted with the FAIA's writing aid in 2018. The thriller A Big Business, developed in writer’s room with Yasmine Louati is then coached by Ludovic du Clary at Pictanovo. In 2020, About couple and engine is one of the five projects selected by Fadette Drouard at the Comedy Lab (Lille Cine Comedy Festival) and pitched in front of producers. The script is then pre-selected at the Beaumarchais' grant in 2022.
As member of the board of Sequences7, Anaïs Venturi has been in charge of the selection of short film scripts and a juror at the Montélimar Screen Writing Festival (2019) and the European Cinema Lille Festival (2020). She has also organized the Master Class of Eric Rochant and Alex Berger around the case of The Bureau.
Victim of a motorcycle accident, the author spends a year in hospital until summer 2023. An episode which will inevitably generate another story...
However, she then devoted herself to writing a fantastic societal series ZR (10 x 45 mn) in Pierre Puget's workshop and public pitched at La Rochelle Festival in September 2024.
In 2025, the disabled director participates in the Nikon Film Festival with the short C'est pour un sondage.