Anna Foerster

Anna J Foerster born 1971 is a Germanborn American film and television cinematographer and director She is best known for collaborations with director Roland Emmerich working under different capacities on every film directed by him dating back to Independence Day 1996 with the exception of the film The Patriot 2000 As a second unit cinematographer Foerster worked on the films Alien Resurrection 1997 Ballistic Ecks vs Sever 2002 Johnson Family Vacation 2004 The Day After Tomorrow 2004 Æon Flux 2005 and 10000 BC 2008 also working as a second unit director on the latter four films She was the cinematographer for the visual effects andor miniature unit on Independence DayDay 1996Godzilla 1998 Pitch Black 2000 and Stuart Little 2 2002 As a director she directed five episodes of the television series Criminal Minds an episode of its spinoff Criminal Minds Suspect Behaviour three episodes of Unforgettable and four episodes of the Starz series Outlander In 2008 she was reported to be developing a film Secret Hunter based on the Ranulph Fiennes novel The Secret Hunters 2002 Foerster made her feature film directing debut with the action horror film Underworld Blood Wars 2016In 2016 J J Abrams and his production company Bad Robot hired Foerster to direct Lou a thriller about a mother trying to recover her abducted child Description above from the Wikipedia article Anna Foerster licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia