Ann LeSchander

Originally from upstate NY, Ann started as a touring singer in musicals before moving to Los Angeles to record film soundtracks, sparking her passion for storytelling and a pivot to filmmaking. Ann’s historical feature, FREIDEL, won Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope Competition.

As a Creative Director for Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ann has written and directed commercials, trailers, and promos for Sony content including Cinevault, Murder & Mayhem, Sony Movie Channel, Game Show Network, and more. She is the winner of a Promax Gold Award for her “Hellevator Interruptus” campaign with Blumhouse Entertainment.

Ann wrote and directed the indie feature THE PARK BENCH, which won “Best Feature” awards in NY, Toronto, Chicago, and Argentina. It is available on multiple streamers and a popular pick in libraries across the US. (The daughter of a librarian, this makes Ann very happy.) Ann holds a BA in English from Colgate University, and MFA from USC School of Cinematic Arts.

Honors & Awards

Winner - Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope Screenplay Competition - FREIDEL - 2024

Top Ten Final Draft ""Big Break"" (& selected for The Writer's Lab) - PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS - 2019

non-WGA

Female, 40+

MASTERPIECE

Episodic TV Pilot

Castle, White Collar

After a reckless mistake, a rugged LA Homicide Detective is ""transferred"" to Art Theft thrusting him into LA's billion-dollar art scene. Paired with a snobby art scholar, he tracks crimes through the city while while trying to solve the one murder case that has eluded him."

FREIDEL

Feature - Historical Action/Adventure

Arctic, The Nightingale

After her family is murdered in a pogrom, a young Jewish woman embarks on a perilous journey through the Russian wilderness to escape across the border and receives help from an unlikely ally, a young Russian soldier shot for disobeying orders.

PICKING UP PORTER DOUGLAS

Feature - Comedy

Get Him to the Greek, Topsy Turvy

An aspiring singer is thrilled to drive famed opera star Porter Douglas to his sold-out concert in upstate New York, until the carousing tenor goes AWOL and she must enlist a former marine to help find him before he ruins her fledgling career.

Character-driven, Female-centric, Thriller, Romantic, Naturalistic

Female, 40+

unrepped