Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Anna Zaluczkowska
Dr. Anna Zaluczkowska is an award-winning writer and film maker. In the course of her academic career, she has been at the international forefront of research related to all forms of storytelling, with a particular interest in participative forms and new media narratives.Â
She is an active member and contributor to the Screenwriting Research Network and has mentored and worked collaboratively on research and practice projects with many people, including Krishna Stott of Bellyfeel Interactive Storytelling, with whom she developed Red Branch Heroes, an interactive social reality experience – a live story campaign that included feedback loops and network effect embedded in its story mechanic.
Current writing projects include the new theatre play Longshore Drift, written with writer and psychotherapist Tim Moss, which thematically links personal and climate grief; The Printmaker, a feature length film script, written in collaboration with Neapolitan Actor and Buddhist monk Pasquale Esposito, which challenges people’s perceptions of poverty and Art in Napoli; 4 short films collaboratively written with Director and Intimacy Coordinator Laura Torenbeek that might be thought of as the film equivalent of bildungsroman.
Anna is now living in Nairn, Scotland, working with local writing groups, developing performance projects and helping to steer the Nairn Book and Arts Festival as one of its trustees. It’s also closer to the slopes of the Cairngorms where she can continue to develop her snowboarding badly.
