Anne Cattaruzza

Born in France, Canadian award-winning author ANNE CATTARUZZA made herself known as an actress to the Quebec audience in a television series. On January 24th 2020, Anne won The Kairos Prize at the 28th Movie Guide Awards in Los Angeles for her screenplay Searching for Sheida, co-authored with Kim Feeney and based on her first novel. In June, the script won two other awards in Canada: The Word Guild Awards & The Art of Film Making Screenplay Festival. Her script was also selected in three others contests: International Christian Film & Music Film Festival (2020), Page Turner Screenplay Faith Based Competition (Quarter-finalist, 2020), Wiki Screenplay contest (Honorable Mention, 2021). Searching for Sheida was originally published in French under the title À la recherche de Shéïda by Scripsi Editions in Europe & Quebec in 2014, for which she won the 2016 Word Guild Fiction Award. Anne was also a finalist in 2017 for the English published version. Anne released a sequel, Le peuple caché (The Hidden People) in October 2018. Her second novel once again took the prize at The Word Guild Awards (French Fiction) in 2019. Anne is a member of The Word Guild (Christian Canadian Guild of authors) and a member of ISA (International Screenwriters Association). DISTINCTIONS . Kairos Prize Award-winner for Searching for Sheida (the script),2020 . The Art of Film Making Screenplay Festival for Searching for Sheida (the script), 2020 . Word Guild Award-winner for Searching for Sheida (the script), 2020, . Word Guild Award-winner for Le peuple caché (The Hidden People), 2019. Word Guild finalist for Searching for Sheida (the novel), 2017. . Word Guild Award-winner for À la recherche de Shéïda (French version of Searching for Sheida, the novel), 2016. . "Festival des Radiophonies" finalist (Radiophonic Festival) for Coppélia, 2004.