Aniela Sidorska

Aniela Sidorska is a Polish-born refugee 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 Oscar nominee for Best Picture Beasts of the Southern Wild, and a visual effects producer on such films as Lee Daniels’ The Butler and The Expendables 3. Her small-screen credits include the series “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Blacklist,” “The Americans” and “Elementary.” Most recently, she was involved in creature development for the Netflix Original Chupa and was a co-writer on the feature film, Extra Ordinary, now in development. Upon discovering porcelain artists in Ukraine, Sidorska went on to develop, write and produce Porcelain War. She is a voting member of the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.