Tracey Anarella

Anarella made her debut as the director of Jesse and the Fountain of Youth (2013), an 11-minute documentary about a New York City subway busker.^[4] The movie won the "Emerging Artists Award" at the McMinnville Short Film Festival (2013),^{[5][better source needed]} "Best Short Film" at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema (2014)^{[citation needed]} and "Best Documentary" at the Laughlin International Film Festival (2014).^[4]

In 2014 Anarella shot a 12-minute documentary Brooklyn United about the Brooklyn United Marching Band.^[6] The movie received three nominations at the Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in 2015^[2] and was featured in the Cannes Short Corner marketplace at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival^[1] and at Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (Jecheon, South Korea).^[7] She continued with a 10-minute documentary Beautiful Lies (2016) about her father, 87 year-old artist George Williams, who has dementia and talks about his life through his alter ego named Charles. It premiered at 2016 Harlem International Film Festival^[8] and later was screened at Laughlin International Film Festival (2016).^[9] SENE Film, Art and Music Festival (2017)^[10] and YoFiFest (2017).^[11]

In 2017, Anarella made Not Black Enough, her first full-length documentary featuring Vanessa Williams, Petey Pablo, Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Florence LaRue. It was featured at WOW Middle Eastern Film Festival (Dubai, United Arab Emirates),^[12] The Ethnografilm Festival (Paris, France),^[13] at Roxbury Film Festival,^[14] Austin Revolution Film Festival,^[3] Laughlin International Film Festival,^[15] Buffalo Niagara Film Festival,^[16] Queens World Film Festival,^[17] SENE Film, Art and Music Festival^[18] and at International Black Film Festival,^[19] Charlotte Black Film Festival,^[20] 19th San Francisco Black Film Festival^[21][22] and African Diaspora Film Festival.^[23][24]

In 2017, Anarella started to film Livingston Taylor: Life Is Good, a documentary about American folk musician Livingston Taylor.^[25] The movie was partially crowdfunded at Indiegogo.^[26]