Joseph Anaya co-created, produced and wrote the VH1 series Strange Frequency. Quality production value, notable performances, as well as ironic twists and a dark sense of humor became the hallmarks of this series.

Anaya directed the short film Short On Sugar and also wrote and directed the critically popular short film A Hollow Place. His shorts have been screened at Sundance, the

Los Angeles Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, the Miami International Film Festival and have been broadcast on television in the U.S. and around the world.

Prior to that, Anaya worked as a post-production supervisor including three years with the ground-breaking production company, Propaganda Films. While at Propaganda, Anaya supervised features, music videos, and commercials. Anaya began his career in San Francisco, producing and directing industrials for the Alameda County Transportation Authority, the Army Corps of Engineers, CALTRANS, Stanford University Medical Center and the City of Los Angeles. Anaya studied film and video production at San Francisco State University and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Communications.

The child of a Mexican American father and a Japanese mother, Anaya was raised in a household where English was a second language. He began making amateur films at the age of 11, when he wrote a script involving monsters and mad scientists, which his 5th grade classmates produced