Aniela Sidorska
- Visual Effects
- Writer
- Producer
Aniela is a Polish-born producer whose love of film began when she first experienced Western cinema in her early childhood. After studying art in San Francisco, she went on to be a Visual Effects compositor on Captain America: The First Avenger, a Compositing Supervisor on the 2012 Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner and Best Picture Oscar nominee Beasts of the Southern Wild, and a Visual Effects Producer on films and television series such as Lee Daniels' The Butler, The Expendables 3, Boardwalk Empire, The Blacklist, The Americans, Elementary, and many others. Most recently, she was involved in the creature development of the Netflix original Chupa and was a co-writer on the all-ages feature film Extra Ordinary, now in development. Upon discovering porcelain artists in Ukraine, Aniela went on to develop, write, and produce the documentary feature Porcelain War, an official selection of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the U.S. Documentary competition. She is a voting member of the Producers Guild of America and The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.