| Birth Date: | April 28, 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Plainfield, New Jersey |
| Yearsactive: | 1982 - current |
| Spouse: | Mark M. Green (m. 1985-) |
| Website: | http://anneflournoy.com/ |
| Occupation: | Screenwriter, producer, director |
Anne Flournoy (born April 28, 1952) is an American writer, producer and film director, best known for the webseries The Louise Log.[1]
Anne Flournoy's first short film, Louise Smells a Rat, was made in 1982[2] by recutting snippets of other peoples' films and borrowing a song. The total budget, just over $1,000,[3] went on lab fees. Louise Smells a Rat is "an elliptical spy story, set to a driving merengue by Johnny Ventura. It was made from twenty-four hours of discarded 16mm prints, distilled down to four and a half minutes."[4] Louise Smells a Rat premiered at the New York Film Festival. The film can be seen on YouTube. In 1985 Louise Smells a Rat was shown at the 29th London Film Festival[5]
The short film Nadja Yet was made in 1983. It is a story of obsessive teen love, adapted from Turgenev, and starred Jenny Wright.[6]
The feature film How To Be Louise[7] is a "coming-of-age story about an insecure young woman who has a lousy job, great expectations and a confused idea of what it means to be a woman".[8] It had its US premiere in 1990 in competition at the Sundance Film Festival,[9] its European premiere in the Panorama at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was awarded a three star rating by the New York Post.
The webseries The Louise Log is a comedy dealing with "the confessions of a New York City wife and mother hell-bent on getting it right in spite of ... her over-active inner voice."[10] The series was launched on the last day of 2007, in a desperate bid to break out of a cycle of delays.[11] Christine Cook[12] played Louise in the first two series—Morgan Hallett took over in the third--"a woman dealing with her husband, kids, an elaborate ensemble of notable characters, and her ... humorously overactive inner voice".[13] The series has completed 44 episodes to date, with more in the pipeline.[14]
The Independent included Flournoy on their list of 10 Filmmakers To Watch in 2012.[15]
Flournoy was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1991.[16]