Zel Anders

Background

About Zel Anders

Zel Anders is a film producer/writer who identifies as a feminist queer tomboy. They split their time between northern Spain and the United States. Zel is developing several narrative limited series including THE PARIS BOOKSELLER and A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN and narrative feature-length films including A WARRIOR OF THE PEOPLE, A WOMAN OF THREE NATIONS, NAKED IN THE PROMISED LAND, TWO plus ONE, and ABIGAIL AND PATIENCE. They are also currently writing and developing a short film called 28 Easy Steps to Becoming President. Zel is interested in social justice issues including women's equality, LGBT issues, ending domestic violence, aging issues, financial education, gender identity, and caring for our environment. In 2016, Zel directed nine short documentary films based on the U.S. Presidential Election. The Elders for Hillary videos received views on Facebook in the week before the election. Versatile and broadly educated, Anders has qualified & worked in several trades including as a non-profit development & stewardship writer & a freelance journalist for a regional newspaper. In 2012, Zel founded Tomboy Tailors—a company specializing in producing bespoke men’s suits for women’s bodies & for agender & transgender folks. In the business’s first weeks, Tomboy Tailors & Anders received coverage in the Huffington Post, Jezebel, & the San Francisco Chronicle. Within months, Anders and the company received coverage in the New York Times, Curve Magazine, The Advocate Magazine, & Entrepreneur Magazine. The company’s mission was to help people feel freer to express their individual sense of style in clothing. The company did not survive the start-up process. Zel didn't believe a woman's studies instructor who in 1983 told her students that she wasn't sure that anyone would live long enough to see a woman become U.S. President. Zel has often thought about this statement and 41 years later Zel remains stunned and saddened by the fact that there has yet to be a woman elected as U.S. President. Zel is, however, thrilled that Kamala Harris became the first woman to be Vice President of the United States. Onward!