Anna Callista Eisen
Education
Film Education
Films
Look the Other Way
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography / Production Design. A short film about a girl trying to hide from a hoard of zombies who attempts to get the attention of someone listening to music and alert them to the danger of the undead.
Dining In
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography / Production Design. Short montage film where someone does their dishes to a disco tune.
Talking Some Trash
Director / Editor / Producer. Documentary about waste management in the town of San Rafael, and how politicians are looking at sustainability policies.
Penance
Director of Photography. A dark comedy film about a young girl who forms a strange friendship with her polar opposite at the church where she goes to mourn her younger sister.
The Producer's Office
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography / Production Design. A postmodernist short film about a desperate director who tries to pitch her movie to a producer, who keeps suggesting wild ideas that the director had trouble trying to recreate.
November
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography / Production Design. A neo-noir based on Bonnie and Clyde (1967) about a lone bank robber whose heist goes wrong.
12
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography / Production Design. A short film about a girl's time-jumping journey through her neighborhood to try and be on time for a meeting.
Laundry List
Director / Writer / Editor / Director of Photography / Production Design. A short film about a young girl who discovers that her bedside lamp can change the time of day.
Featured Theater & Musical Acting
Two Gentlemen of Verona — Proteus
Big — Science Homework Kid / Ensemble
Richard III — Richard
Acting Training
Monologues, scene work, and on-camera acting at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and Contra Costa Civic Theater. Jazz, ballet, and modern dance at Shawl Anderson Dance Studio and Berkeley Playhouse with Joe Ayers. Competed three times at the Junior Theater Festival West, and Australia. Sang with Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir 2014–2016 and 6 years of vocal training with Lisa Woo and Rachel Robinson.
Acting Skills
Proficiency in Spanish, and a decent grasp of Southern, Northern Irish, and English (Northern and aristocratic) accents. Can do an amazing impression of the host of Great British Bake Off.