Anna McRoberts

Anna McRoberts is an Emmy-nominated television and feature film director, writer, showrunner, and producer.
She is the co-creator, writer, and producer of the all-time top grossing live-action direct-to-video movie franchise
– the nine movie Air Buddies franchise – which sold 45 million units for Disney.

Anna created, wrote and directed Pup Academy, a 22-episode series that premiered on the Disney Channel,
then was globally released as a Netflix Original. Pup Academy was a top ten series on the overall Netflix
platform in the US, a rare distinction for a children’s series, as well as top ten in many international
markets. After Pup Academy’s enormous success, Netflix commissioned Anna to create and direct two all-new
Netflix Original Limited Series – the critically-acclaimed Scaredy Cats and Phantom Pups both Top Ten Netflix
Original Series. Anna is also the writer and producer of over 20 other successful family films for major studios
including Disney, Miramax, Warner Brothers, and Fox.

A renowned and innovative creator, her content has generated over $1B in revenue for her studio partners. Not
only an imaginative and experienced writer, director and producer, Ms. McRoberts is also a master franchise and
world builder and has a prolific track record of both in launching new IP and maximizing existing IP into
successful commercial content and ancillary businesses, as well as transforming IP into high-quality globally
successful evergreen family franchises and brands.

Anna served as the President of Air Bud Entertainment for over a decade, and now consults as their Chief
Content Officer. She has a deep understanding of all facets of entertainment – development, financing,
production, marketing and distribution.

She is an alumni of AFI and UCLA, and resides between the west coast of Canada and California, and holds US,
CDN, and UK passports.