Anne Sewitsky is an executive producer and director of the hit Apple TV show, Presumed Innocent. Sewitsky spoke with MovieWeb’s Greg Archer about the series, its shocking finale, how the cast was kept in the dark about the killer’s identity, and how Jake Gyllenhaal made her cry.

Anne Sewitsky is a Norwegian American filmmaker, currently living in Norway. Sewitsky’s debut film “Happy, Happy” won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2011, and was Norway’s Academy Award entry the same year. Her two next films “Homesick” and “Sonja: The White Swan” also premiered in main competition in Sundance in 2016 and 2019, respectively.

Sewitsky was co-creator and showrunning director of NRK’s most ambitious and expensive show to date, psychological thriller “Monster.” Sewitsky directed the critically acclaimed season 2018 finale of”Black Mirror,” starring Miley Cyrus, as well as the pilot of Mary Law’s “Monsterland,” starring Kaitlyn Dever. On the feature side, Sewitsky is attached to direct Bill Wheeler’s “White Night,” for producer Anne Carey based on the non-fiction memoir “Seductive Poison” by Deborah Layton — Layton’s unflinching account of her years as one of Jim Jones’s most trusted confidantes and her efforts to bring the Jonestown massacre to the attention of the U.S. government.

Sewitsky has most recently directed the limited series “A Very British Scandal,” starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany, which was released on Boxing Day 2021. She will also direct “Destroyers.”

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