Yaa Boaa Aning’s path to Hollywood was long, winding and unconventional to say the least. Armed with a Bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she headed back home to New York City to begin a career in advertising. Quickly growing bored with the lack of creative expression in account management, she decided to try her hand at fashion show production with some of the most prominent fashion houses in the world; Giorgio Armani, BCBG, Kenneth Cole, and Betsey Johnson to name just a few. Fashion show production led to fashion styling, which led to film costuming, which ultimately exposed her to the enduring art of filmmaking, working with such acclaimed directors as Michael Mann, Bill Condon and John Singleton. Although never formally trained as a filmmaker, she used her proximity to these and other industry greats to learn as much as she could about the craft. From chatting up myriad of cinematographers, to getting notes from screenwriters and directors on set, she never stopped her pursuit of knowledge. Equipped with all of this wisdom, in 2009 she wrote and directed her first project, award winning narrative short, The Prince of Venice. Never letting go of her passion for writing, between 2007 and 2010, Aning completed five feature screenplays. Other projects include the experimental short Zahara, which is currently in post, and her first feature length project Bleeding Sunshine, which is in development.