Movie studio executive for 25+ years with eclectic taste in film ranging from TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY to Ingmar Bergman’s WILD STRAWBERRIES. Equal parts cinephile and fangirl, Becky can tackle pop culture and cinematic subjects ranging from Star Trek to the French New Wave.
Becky D’Anna has been a movie junkie her entire life. At just six years old, she was already lining up at the Mann National in Westwood with her family to see Twilight Zone: The Movie on opening night. Her parents also had a passion for film; often taking her to the movies up to four times on any given weekend to see the latest releases in her formative years. That early exposure sparked a passion that grew into a career ambition while she studied at USC: to market movies at a major motion picture studio. After graduation, Becky landed her first role at Twentieth Century Fox, launching her movie marketing career. Over the next twenty-five years, she fueled her passion for cinema by working on event film marketing campaigns from X-Men at Fox to the Spider-Man franchise at Sony Pictures, while also continuing to share her film knowledge by writing and podcasting about her favorite movies, TV shows, and filmmakers.
Becky is the co-host of the Sony Pictures podcast, Director’s Take which brings today’s most acclaimed filmmakers into conversation with the films that shaped them. She has also been a guest instructor on film history and appreciation and most recently taught a 6-hour lecture on the films of Ingmar Bergman at UC Riverside as part of their “Contemporary Approaches to Filmmaking” program. In 2022, she was a guest panelist on the “Horror and the Inevitable Remake” panel at San Diego Comic Con.