Meet Our Founder

Anne Hamilton is a filmmaker, writer, and strategist working at the intersection of story, ethics, and social change. She is a professor of film and television at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts and an award-winning director with a background spanning film, law, and public policy.

Anne is the founder of Ajax Media, a creative studio that supports nonprofits and artists navigating complex terrain where storytelling carries real responsibility and consequence. Her work centers narrative clarity, emotional truth, and respect for lived experience, particularly in projects involving illness, justice, power, and cultural transformation. She is deeply interested in the power stories have to shape public opinion and public life.

Her creative credits include developing feature films and pilot television scripts for major studios such as Paramount, Scott Free, and Miramax, as well as directing films and episodic television for both network and streaming platforms. As a professor at USC, she has helped thousands of students become more thoughtful storytellers and advocates.

Anne is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Stanford University, Yale Law School, and the American Film Institute. She is a Fox Filmmaker Fellow, the recipient of the Inevitable Foundation’s 2024 Loreen Arbus Award, and a 2025 Mira Fellow. She is also a founding member of The Survivorship Collective, a nonprofit focused on community-based healing and meaning-making for people facing serious illness.

Across her work, Anne is known for her ability to hold complexity, ask the right questions, and help partners tell stories that are grounded, humane, and enduring.