She grew up on Long Island, NY and was inspired to study languages after a year-long exchange program in Sweden. She moved across the country to study Linguistics at UC Santa Cruz. Over those formative years, she worked at an Alaskan fish cannery, on a goat ranch as a veterinary technician, as an ESL teacher and at an Israeli plastics factory.
Zanna came to Los Angeles to explore the world of independent documentary filmmaking. She honed her skills on films including the 2000 Academy Award-winner Into the Arms of Strangers: Story of the Kindertransport, Rory Kennedy’s Pandemic: Facing AIDS, and the 2006 Sundance Documentary Competition entry The World According to Sesame Street, amongst many others.
Zanna first dipped her toes into interactive waters on the Science Fiction Museum and has since worked with the Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development crew to produce an imaging program and consumer web site for Adventures by Disney.
She brings to the table a deep interest in creating substantive, educational and entertaining media. And a tiny bit of Type-A, perfectionist personality traits