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Anna Craney is the editor of award-winning documentaries. Wide Open Sky won the Audience Award for Best Documentary Sydney Film Festival 2015. Pitch Battle (Foreign Correspondent) won the ASE award for Best Editing Short Form 2015. You Only Live Twice - the Incredibly True Story of the Hughes Family won the AFI Award for Best Documentary under one hour 2010. Searching for Sandeep won the Audience Award Sydney Film Festival 2007. Girl in a Mirror won the Rose D'Or Switzerland, Film Critics Circle Best Documentary 2005 and the Dendy Short Film Award and Best Documentary.

Anna has also edited news, other television programs (including Madhattan, Compass, Move it Mobstyle), web content, short films for art galleries, and other documentaries including A Night at Sea with Louis Tillett, Keeper and Rain Man Goes to RockWiz.

Anna studied film-making at North Sydney TAFE and worked as a camera assistant and video producer before discovering her love of editing. She completed a BA at UTS and an MA in Documentary Editing at AFTRS.

Anna was on the Committee of the ASE in 2002 and 2003.