Annette, a writer and director, received her B.A. at McGill University and her M.F.A at Columbia University's Film School. Screenings for her short films include the Tribeca Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Palm Springs Short Film Festival, Karlovy Vary Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, PBS, HBO, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and MOMA. Annette received the New Line Cinema Award at Columbia and won awards at the Austin Film Festival, the Crested Butte Reel Fest, the Black Maria Film Festival, the Rosebud Film Festival, and Film Fest New Haven.
Annette has been a writer and producer at MTV's pro-social web site ThinkMTV, and was a web writer for UNICEF. Her first feature film, "Fighting Fish," premiered at the 2010 Nashville Film Festival. The family drama stars Halley Feiffer ("Gentlemen Broncos," "Margot at the Wedding"), Val Emmich ("Ugly Betty," "30 Rock") and Anna Moore ("The Life Before Her Eyes"). She is currently writing a screenplay adaptation of the novel "The Homemaker," which she is slated to direct, and is editing her documentary on the artist Kit Keith.